Archive for February, 2009

Dave Sattler wasn’t looking for high fashion. The 2006 Thunderbird graduate just wanted affordable T-shirts and jeans made without child labor — using cotton grown without toxic pesticides and fertilizers. He started looking for organic clothing outlets as graduation approached, but everything he found came with high price tags. “At the time,” he says, “there weren’t too many options out there.” So Sattler launched his own online store in October 2007 called Sattler Clothing.
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Blogs didn’t exist when I arrived at Thunderbird in 1966 as the school’s fifth president. Back then we were called the American Institute for Foreign Trade. The name has changed more than once since then, but the school’s mission has remained virtually the same. Thunderbird has stood for decades as a champion of “doing good while doing well.” That’s why I agreed to join this blog community when Kellie approached me recently about sharing my insights on the importance of global citizenship. Let me start by introducing myself. My name is Art Peterson. I am the president who parked his plane behind his house on the airfield (on what was then called “faculty row”).
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I am convinced that the two best things people can do when developing their future career is to be honest about what they want and surround themselves with talented individuals. A little about me, and then to the gist of the post. My name is Andrew Wulf, and I’m a 2008 Thunderbird graduate in International Strategy and Development. Before heading to Glendale, I spent three years in Panama with the Peace Corps teaching agricultural business practices to farmers and watermelon exporters. Although I never considered myself much interested in seeds and soils, I found myself enjoying the swing of a machete and satisfaction of harvesting what we sowed.
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