Gelgia Fetz Fernandes

Gelgia Fetz Fernandes holds a graduate degree from Zurich University where she studied Social Anthropology, Media Studies, and International Relations focusing on the Middle East. She is a trained journalist and has worked as newspaper editor, covering events and news stories national and international in scope. Since 2007, Gelgia Fetz Fernandes has been a Program Manager at the Jacobs Foundation running the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize and the Young Scholar Programs. In April 2020, she assumed a Program Lead role at the Jacobs Foundation.

Contributions by Gelgia

Leveraging technology can make a difference in refugee children’s lives

Gelgia Fetz Fernandes / 18 August 2017

Interview Learning & Education Education technology

“A reward-based approach could be key in adolescent learning”

Gelgia Fetz Fernandes / 19 October 2016

Interview Development Psychology

“Some basic notions of fairness are culturally constructed”

Gelgia Fetz Fernandes / 5 August 2016

Interview Development Diversity

Researchers, science journalists, policymakers, and educators contribute to BOLD

Saloni Krishnan

Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London

Chris Fu

Graduate Researcher, University of Washington

Catherine Lebel

Associate Professor, Radiology at the University of Calgary

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