Landmark Education News Blog By Landmark Forum Graduates

The new book of Amanda Koster, "Can I Come With You?" is being released September 16 at a special event at the Seattle Central Community College. Koster, whose photography based social media tours have attracted major media attention, and who used her participation in Landmark Education's SELP program to expand her difference making projects, wrote [...]

Award winning Seattle photographer Amanda Koster has received significant press attention for her multimedia social awareness tours she has led through India and many parts of the developing world, including articles in the Chicago Tribune and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The last India tour has also received more after the fact attention as participants have had their [...]

Over the past few years, Landmark Education graduate Shana Dressler has created Discovering Ganesh, a multi-pronged project based on her passion for India and the Hindu god Ganesh.
Most recently, Discovering Ganesh has launched a fundraiser in New York City and a Ganesh festival in India. The fundraiser takes place June 26 and benefits the [...]

Smriti Jhnigan has always wanted to make a difference with children in India, her native country, and when she took Landmark Education’s Self-Expression and Leadership Program in London she created a project to raise money to improve the quality of life for children at two orphanages. Her project caught the attention of Echo, a South Essex [...]

Amanda Koster is both an acclaimed Seattle photographer and a graduate of the Landmark Forum. She has long used her skills to spotlight compelling issues around the world and the valuable work being to done to make a difference with them. She has gotten many requests to turn these trips into tours that bring other people into [...]

G.V. Bhat lives in Sirsi, India, a small town with a problem common to rural India: no jobs, or more accurately, no middle class white collar jobs. This problem causes educated youth to leave the villages they grew up in as soon as they are of working age, overpopulating the cities and emptying rural communities. Bhat took Landmark Education’s Self-Expression [...]

Imagine burns covering 75% of your body. Curled up at home, away from the light, curtains drawn. You are ashamed of your own reflection, spurned by family and in agony from huge lesions that cover you. That is how scores of forgotten burns victims while away their days. Most of them could easily have died [...]

In a country with over a billion people educating children is a challenge.  In spite of that challenge, Indian culture has very high expectations of their children when it comes to education.   It a competitive environment that leaves most students tense and anxious at exam time.   When children with learning disabilities can’t keep up it can [...]