Global, Civic, Cross Disciplinary Advisor
My excitement to support Duke students interested in global opportunities and civic engagement stems from my own experiences living, traveling, and volunteering abroad. I spent part of my childhood in England and studied for several years in Germany. This served as a springboard to travel to several other places around the globe. I learned how to forgo the map, talk to strangers, and question my assumptions as my travels took me to Northern, Central and Eastern Europe and China. Much of my civic engagement has been in voter registration and supporting older adults, something I have been able to do both in the U.S. and in Germany.
After getting my BA in German Literature from Bard College, I went to Germany as a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow to provide language instruction support to a technical university in eastern Germany. I later returned to Germany to get my master’s degree in German literature from the Freie Universitaet in Berlin and then moved to New York City where I worked at an international internship exchange organization and as an international student advisor at The New School. Immediately preceding my work at the AAC, I was associate director of the career center at Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy where I advised students on global opportunities in public policy and forged partnerships with organizations around the world.
As a first-gen low-income college student, I wasn’t aware of all the resources I could have taken advantage of and relied on a few helpful professors and friends to guide me through academic and co-curricular decisions. I am thrilled to be in a position that works alongside students as they shape and determine (and redetermine) their academic goals while learning to become civically engaged and thoughtful global citizens.
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