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ABOUT ME

I am an experienced international education professional with a background in East Asian studies and Chinese language. With the rise of Chinese students studying in the U.S., I strongly believe in supporting American and international students achieve advanced Chinese language skills to facilitate cultural exchanges with China.

I am originally from a small town in New Hampshire.  After my first year at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, I was eager to study abroad and gain the international experiences of many of my peers. I choose to travel as far away from the U.S. as I could and I enrolled in a summer study abroad program in Cambodia. This began my fascination with Asia and I changed my major to East Asian Studies I spent my junior year intensively studying Chinese at the CET Academic Programs in Beijing and Shanghai.

 

 

Through the International Education Management MA Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, I have continued my own language studies at an advanced level while honing my professional skills. This past summer, I received the State Department’s Critical Language Scholarship, which allowed me the opportunity to intensively study Chinese for 8 weeks.

 

I am currently working for the Hopkins-Nanjing Center (HNC), a unique educational collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University, as the Student Services and Communications Manager. At the HNC, international students complete graduate coursework in international affairs in Chinese. At the same time, international students live and study alongside their Chinese peers. In this role, I am thrilled to be supporting international students to achieve professional level Chinese and obtain an advanced knowledge of Sino-global relations. I believe that increasing by strengthening education exchanges and language competency, we can achieve mutual understanding and strengthen U.S.-China relations.

After graduating, I returned to China to work for the Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School as the International Affairs Manager. In this role, I was able to use my Chinese language professionally to serve as the liaison between the all-Chinese administration and the international faculty, staff and students. I supported more than 70 international graduate students from over 40 different countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, Middle East and the Americas. I became the point person for international students and faculty with campus-related problems or trouble adjusting to living in China. 

Studying abroad in Siem Reap, Cambodia

Studying abroad in Shanghai, China

 With my coworkers of the Chancellor’s Secretariat Office at PKU Shenzhen

Studying abroad with CLS Dalian

With the Hopkins-Nanjing Center team in Washington DC

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