Our Alumni Ambassador Programme

Reinvigorating Regional Networks and Support for Woodstock

Aditya Manral

Our alumni community continues to remain one of the most critical and active pillars of support for Woodstock. Individuals have volunteered in a variety of ways to ensure that Woodstock’s legacy, mission, and spirit thrive. The Alumni Ambassador Programme was recently formed to reinvigorate regional support efforts, bringing together engaged volunteers from around the world to serve in areas where the school has identified a need.

The Ambassador Programme is creating action plans and building networks in support of current Woodstock strategic priorities. Priorities include student and staff recruitment (with a focus on diversity) and fundraising towards important future-facing initiatives to establish a school endowment for scholarships to attract diverse students to Woodstock. Priorities also include funding ongoing work to provide staff and students with ample, up-to-date campus infrastructure while maintaining heritage structures and optimizing environmental sustainability. Ambassadors carry out several additional important volunteer activities such as providing internships to current students and recent Woodstock graduates and helping the Woodstock Advancement and Alumni Office build community among alumni and get alumni reconnected with the school.

Palden Tshering ’91 (based in Bhutan) and Lauri Coulter ’81 (based in the U.S.) are spearheading the programme and are excited to hear from anyone interested in becoming a Woodstock Ambassador. Palden, who is a WOSA Asia committee member, shares his assurance that anyone wanting to help can be connected with volunteer opportunities that are the right fit: “To be identified as a Woodstock Ambassador lets me give back in my own way. To anyone