Barnard Student Eman Bataineh Selected as 2005 Goldman Sachs Global Leader
 New York, NY-- Barnard sophomore Eman Bataineh has been named a 2005 Goldman Sachs Global Leader and is one of 20 finalists from 26 top colleges and universities in the United States and Canada who will compete among the hundred students chosen worldwide for a place at the prestigious Global Leadership Institute sponsored by Goldman Sachs each year. Ten of the chosen 20 students will be invited to attend the worldwide Global Leaders Institute to be held in New York City this summer.
Bataineh joined the other 19 students from the U.S. and Canada for the recognition events weekend, April 14-17 in New York. It kicked-off with a welcome dinner at the Institute of International Education, which organizes the global competition with a grant from Goldman Sachs. An award ceremony was held on April 15, where Bataineh and others were recognized for their achievements and presented with an award certificate.
"We are pleased to be one of the 26 colleges and universities in the United States invited to nominate students for this program," said Karen Blank, Dean of Studies, who heads the effort at Barnard. "Our seven nominees this year were dazzling, and we were proud to put forth each one of them for consideration. We believe that Eman will represent herself and all of us extremely well."
During the weekend, the selected Global Leaders presented to the organizers and renowned business and government leaders the types of leadership projects that they are working on. Bataineh, who is an anthropology and pre-med major at Barnard, discussed her extensive involvement with community service and multicultural programs, and her future hopes of training non-professional medical personnel for underdeveloped regions, which have a shortage of doctors. During high school, she participated in the Hugh O'Brien Youth Leadership program, which has led her to work in nursing homes while in high school and college. At Barnard, Bataineh took a leading role in diversity initiatives, such as the students of color retreat and multicultural leadership initiatives to solve problems related to multiethnic environments, such as "Project Tolerance," which Bataineh has been heading in cooperation with the Arab student organization Turath on campus.
"In the future, I want to be able to train non-professional medical personnel, so that when the foreign doctors leave, the projects that got initiated can be continued in these underdeveloped regions," she said.
At the age of 13, Eman left her home in Jordan, where her parents still reside, to be educated in the United States. After graduation, she wants to obtain experience working with organizations such as "Doctors without Borders," with a goal of one day leading health care projects in the underdeveloped regions of the world, which are almost without any international assistance.
With the help of the Global Leader title, Bataineh is now able to apply for a variety of funding within IIE. She is currently applying for the Victor J. Goldberg IIE Prize For Peace in the Middle East, which aims to further Arab - Israeli cooperation. The award is granted yearly to an Arab and an Israeli student team - Betaineh is partnered with Dalit Ballen, who is a student in the joint Columbia/JTS program.
After the weekend's presentations, Bataineh will wait to hear whether she will be selected as one of the 50 Global Leader finalists to attend the Institute this summer.
Each year, 100 students worldwide are selected from over 70 top universities and colleges to be part of the Goldman Sachs Global Leadership Institute. The selection is made based on academic excellence and leadership potential, and the program seeks to identify and cultivate tomorrow's educators, policy makers, business leaders, entrepreneurs and scientists. Many of the students chosen are already working on projects to solve problems across the globe. To become a Global Leader, each student must be nominated by his or her school. The winners are rewarded $3,000 dollars each and will be given the title of Goldman Sachs Global Leader.
Contact: Petra Tuomi, Public Affairs, 212-854-7907 |
