Hello! My name is Chabelly Aimi Acosta. Born in New York and raised in Dominican Republic, my parents’ homeland, I am a first generation Dominican-American. Growing up in Dominican Republic showed me high levels of inequalities, extreme poverty and the reality of life in a developing state. However, these same life experiences made me passionate and dedicated to social development, justice and international affairs. During eleven years, my family and I helped organize medical missions and distributed food, toys and clothing in underdeveloped areas with the Ministry of the Holy Spirit, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
I moved back to New York in 2011, when I was awarded an undergraduate degree scholarship from St. John’s University. Living back in New York, I assisted the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs at Fordham University as a research intern and performed a comprehensive data research and literature review of the humanitarian response to urban disasters. I graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2015 with a BA in Sociology and a minor in Legal Studies. Consequently, I decided to follow my passion and continued my education by pursuing a master’s degree in Global Development and Social Justice at St. John's University. I yearn to learn of the structural problems that challenge our world, to help find effective and evolving solutions through research and work and to initiate discourses on cooperation and global development in the international community.
I started my master's program in June 2015 and traveled to Italy and Germany for the first time. It was an amazing experience and a dream come true. Currently, I am working as the graduate and research assistant of the cohort 10 in the program.
Visiting Ostia Antica
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