Session and Roundtable Chairs and Presenters
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FEBRUARy 15–18, WASHINGTON, DC, USA Session and Roundtable Chairs and Presenters Bios current at time of printing. Eva Anneli Adams has experience General Linguistics. He has published senior trainer with the European Association including international education leadership, extensively, in Russian, on the poetry of for International Education (EAIE) and program and organizational development, Alexander Brodsky and contributed entries, presents on topics relating to international university teaching, and she served the in English, to the Dictionary of Literary education strategies and the international Department of State at the U.S. Embassy in Biography. student experience. Alexander earned a BA Finland for 20 years. Active on national and in French from the University of Birmingham international boards on education, Adams Gifty Ako-Adounvo is Director of and an MBA from the University of holds a Master’s degree in adult education International Students and Scholars at Warwick. and PhD in higher education leadership. The Ohio State University. Ako-Adounvo She has published on cultural competencies is active in NAFSA and has presented on Alexandra Anda is the Outreach and sociology of leadership. Adams teaches comprehensive internationalization and Coordinator at the U.S. Embassy in educational leadership and leads campus campus approaches to international student Ecuador. She is responsible for managing internationalization at Cal Poly Pomona. integration. She previously held faculty the Department of State’s International positions in the departments of Classics and Speakers program, and is the main point of Lindsay Addington is Assistant Director African American and African Studies at contact for universities, outreach initiatives, of International Initiatives at the National Ohio State. Ako-Adounvo holds a doctorate and the Embassy’s official Facebook page. Association for College Admission in Classical Studies from McMaster She holds a BA in International Studies from Counseling. She develops programs for University in Canada. Albion College in Michigan, and a MA and research around the counseling, degree in Latin American Studies from the recruitment, enrollment, and support of Sergio Alcocer is Undersecretary University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. students looking to study in another country. for North America at the Ministry of Prior to NACAC, Lindsay worked at the Foreign Relations of Mexico and former Dorothea Antonio is Senior Director of American Council on Education’s Center for Undersecretary for Energy Planning and Internationalization Services at NAFSA: Internationalization and Global Engagement Technology Development at the Secretariat Association of International Educators, and at the George Washington University’s of Energy of Mexico. He is also President contributing to the association’s strategies (GW) Office of Undergraduate Admissions. of the Mexican Academy of Engineering, on internationalizing higher education and She holds a doctorate in Higher Education and member of the Mexican Academy working closely with senior international Administration from GW. of Sciences and the National System of education leaders. Her background includes Researchers. In honors, Undersecretary international education, training, and Jack Ahern is Vice Provost for Alcocer has received several distinctions development, with academic, government, International Programs and a professor of and awards. NGO, and business experience. She has landscape architecture at the University a BA from the University at Albany, TESOL of Massachusetts Amherst. He has been Teshome Alemneh is Program Officer for certification from SIT Graduate Institute, active in international education throughout Africa at Higher Education for Development and an MA in Latin American Studies from his academic career including his PhD managing higher education partnerships George Washington University. from Wageningen University, Netherlands, and grants in sub-Saharan Africa. He was a Fulbright fellowship in Portugal, and a research fellow & consultant at APLU and Cathy Lee Arcuino is Director of lecturing at over 20 universities in Europe, New Century Fulbright Scholar at SUNY, International Programs & Services at South America, and Asia. At UMass, Ahern University at Buffalo. He has served as Pittsburg State and oversees International is expanding the mission of the International Deputy Minister of higher education and Programs and Services, Study Abroad, and Programs Office to support campus associate professor at Hawasa and Ambo the Intensive English Program. She was a internationalization. Universities in Ethiopia. He holds MSc and Peace Corps Volunteer in Kazakhstan as PhD in Soils Sciences and Earth Sciences well as lived overseas in Japan, Thailand, Denis Akhapkin is Associate Professor from Ghent University in Belgium. Poland and Kyrgyzstan. Dr. Lee completed and Deputy Dean of Academics at the the NAFSA Academy and was the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of Suzanne Alexander is Director of the Conference Planner for Region II. Currently, Saint Petersburg State University (Smolny International Office at the University of she is in the NAFSA Training Corps and the College), where he directed the Cognitive Leicester, U.K. Previously she held posts IEM KC Liaison for Region II. Research Program and directs First Year in management, marketing and distance Seminar. Akhapkin holds an MA in Russian learning at the British Council, Birmingham Language and Literature and a PhD in and Warwick universities. Alexander is a 109 LEADING GLOBAL LEARNING: ENVISIONING NEW PARADIGMS Heidi Arola is the EducationUSA Branch Mariam Assefa is the Executive Director Her doctorate from the University of Chief at the U.S. Department of State. of World Education Services (WES), a not- Houston concentrated on the sociolinguistic Heidi is a career diplomat and has served for-profit organization based in New York competence of international students. in Rio de Janeiro, Recife, Amsterdam, and and in Toronto, Canada. Assefa is active in Montreal. Heidi received her Associate’s international education and exchange and Clare Banks is Assistant Director for degree from Anoka Ramsey Community makes frequent presentations on foreign International Partnerships and IIE Initiatives College in Anoka, Minnesota, her educational systems and the recognition of at the Institute of International Education, Bachelor’s from Tulane University in New international educational credentials in the managing IIE’s Center for International Orleans, Louisiana, and her Master’s from United States and abroad. Partnerships. In her current role, Ms. Banks Georgetown University, in Washington, coordinates a number of programs focused D.C., where she was also Editor-in-Chief Fanta Aw is Assistant Vice President of on building sustainable partnerships among of the Georgetown Journal of International Campus Life at American University. She HEIs around the world. These include Affairs. is also Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer the International Academic Partnership in the School of International Service at Program, the Global Innovation Initiative Lukman Arsalan, a native of Jordan, American University. Aw is active in NAFSA and the Global Partnership Service. She is Associate Director of Admission for and presents frequently on a range of issues holds a BA from Georgetown University and International Recruitment at Albion College. including strategic international enrollment an MA from New York University. He formerly headed undergraduate management, campus internationalization international admissions for the University and diversity/inclusion. Aw holds a PhD in Tim Barnes is the Director of Illinois of Delaware as the Assistant Director Sociology from American University. Strategic International Partnerships (ISIP) of International Recruitment. Prior to at the University of Illinois at Urbana- that, Lukman worked at the Institute for John Bader, Chief External Academic Champaign. In addition to negotiating and Global Studies at UD coordinating study Relations Officer for the IB, previously managing all inter-institutional agreements abroad programs. He serves as member served as Associate Dean of Undergraduate linking Illinois with partners abroad, he of the President’s Advisory Committee on Academic Affairs at Johns Hopkins works to identify, cultivate, evaluate and Intercultural Affairs, and is the Region VIII University. His book, Dean’s List: Eleven sustain a series of broadly and deeply representative of Rainbow Special Interest Habits of Highly Successful College impactful strategic partnerships with select Group of NAFSA. Students, focuses on navigating the peer institutions around the world. Tim also transition to college. John has a PhD serves as the campus representative for the Daniela Ascarelli is the Assistant Vice and Masters in Political Science from the Fulbright Scholar program, and administers Provost of International Programs and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BA several campus-wide faculty mobility Director of the Study Abroad programs at from Yale. programs. Drexel University. During her time at Drexel, Dani has orchestrated the growth of Drexel Jessica Bagdonis is Director of Britta Baron is Vice-Provost and study abroad options from less than a Program Quality and Impact at Higher Associate Vice-President (International) at dozen opportunities to a portfolio of over Education for Development (HED). Prior the University of Alberta in Edmonton, one 80 opportunities