Landmark Education News Blog By Landmark Forum Graduates

Amanda Koster, the internationally acclaimed photographer and Landmark Forum graduate who has set up unique journalistic/artistic travel tours in the developing world, has put together her first ever tour of Vietnam.

Stacy Cabales created the art and music festival “Barongs of our Fathers” to honor and acknowledge Filipino fathers, to be held June 28th at the Foley Cultural Center in Vallejo, California. Created as her project in the Self-Expression and Leadership Program offered by Landmark Education, Cabales decided to have the event be fundraiser for The Bayanihan Clinic, a Sacramento clinic that provides culturally and linguistically sensitive primary care to the underserved Filipino population, particularly World War II Veterans and recent immigrants.

the availability of the Landmark Forum Forum for Teens has continued to expand throughout Asia – it has now been offered in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka and Beijing.

Luke Cody left a successful career in the banking industry to pursue photojournalism. His project in Landmark Education’s self-expression and leadership program involved a photo exhibition based on a three month tour of Afghanistan. On his What’s the Difference website, Cody explains the purpose of his tour and his exhibit:
“I wish to present a simple [...]

A young woman from India turned a family tragedy into an opportunity to make a difference for thousands of people. Isha Kishore Shah’s father died of a heart attack in early December. Shah, who was participating in Landmark’s SELP programme, arranged to have her father’s eyes donated to an eye bank, and worked to have [...]

Bala Venkata used his project in Landmark’s self expression and leadership program to embark on a major civic initiative – to quiet the excessive noise in bustling Bangalore, India. Citizen Matters, a leading paper of Bangalore, gives Venkat a chance to tell the story.
No Honking – Journey Continues
The project initiated against honking and other noise [...]

Suraj Singh of Bangalore created the “Adopt a Road Project” in his Self-Expression and Leadership Program, as a means of making a difference in his community by improving road quality throughout the Indian metropolis, using a variety of methods. Singh created Good Life Traffic Solutions, whose offical purpose is “to reduce the congestion [...]

Sanjuktha Mukund of Bangalore, India, recently won a citizen journalism contest sponsored by Citizen Matters, a Bangalore focused publication that spotlights the contributions and activities of individual citizens. Mukund’s essay discussed two different projects that he undertook in Landmark Education’s SELP program. The essay appears below:
August 29, 2008
I celebrated this Independence Day with a bang. [...]