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A digital take on Yucatán Allie Jordan, a 2013 Millsaps College graduate, designed her own dream job perfect for a communications studies major fresh from college. Jordan is spending the year as the first Millsaps College Yucatán Communications Fellow, living in Yucatán and launching the social media line that includes Facebook, YouTube, and a Wordpress blog entitled “Millsaps Yucatán.” Jordan is communicating news about the wide range of classes the College offers at its facilities in Yucatán, providing a sense of what daily life is like there, and offering a glimpse of the country’s beauty. Millsaps and its nonprofit organization Kaxil Kiuic (www. kiuic.org) support and operate a 4,500-acre tropical forest biocultural reserve in the heart of the Yucatán Peninsula. The Helen Moyers Biocultural Reserve, with its biological and archaeological resources, serves as the center of Millsaps’ Living in Yucatán
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Program, which offers courses in archaeology, art, business, ecology, education, geology, history, literature, math, and sociocultural anthropology. The reserve includes the off-the-grid Center for Research and Learning; a laboratory and research facility in the Maya town of Oxkutzcab; and the Center for Business and Culture fondly known as Casa Millsaps, a boutique-style hotel and classroom facility in Mérida developed by the Millsaps Else School of Management. Jordan is also participating in a media literacy program with Maya youth who receive an education thanks to the Millsaps Scholarship Program for Rural Youth. The project calls for each student to photograph his or her pueblo and to define “community,” which is similar to what Jordan is doing this year. Read Jordan’s blog at millsapscollegeyucatan.wordpress.com. Like on Facebook at facebook.com/millsapsyucatan. Follow on Instagram at @millsapscollegeyucatan.