Leona Aisha Amosah is an alumna of the 2016 CLS Russian program in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. She was born in Tema, Ghana and moved to the United States when she was four years old. Leona recently graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she majored in Russian language and…
Alumni Profile — March 28, 2017
Andy Marshall is an alumnus of the 2016 CLS Swahili program in Arusha, Tanzania. He is currently a second-year Ph.D. student at Georgetown University in the government (political science) program with a comparative government concentration. Andy grew up in Phillips, in the wonderful Northwoods of W…
Alumni Profile — March 28, 2017
Marlena McDaniel is an alumna of the 2016 CLS Korean program in Gwangju, South Korea. She is currently a senior at the University of North Alabama majoring in Hospitality Management and International Studies. Marlena hopes to return to South Korea next year for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pye…
Alumni Profile — March 28, 2017
Anesce Dremen is an alumna of both the 2015 and 2016 CLS Chinese programs in Xi’an and Suzhou, China, respectively. She is currently a senior at Carthage College majoring in Chinese and English literature with a creative writing concentration. Raised in a little town in North Carolina, Anesce took …
Alumni Profile — March 28, 2017
Why Urdu? In my work, I had been researching terrorism and political violence, especially in Pakistan and South Asia, as well as conducting fieldwork among Pakistani communities in Europe, making Urdu a necessary skill to have. For me, Urdu is a research tool, but also, the more I study Urdu…
Alumni Profile — March 28, 2017
Isabelle McRae is an alumna of the 2016 CLS Turkish program in Baku, Azerbaijan. She is currently a junior at Portland State University majoring in international relations with a minor in Turkish. Isabelle grew up in a small town on a peninsula in Northwest Washington, where you know everyone in th…
Alumni Profile — March 28, 2017
Sabrina Hassan is an alumna of the 2016 CLS Swahili program in Arusha, Tanzania. She is currently a junior at Boston University majoring in international relations and African studies. Sabrina was born in Zanzibar to a Croatian mother and a Zanzibari father, and moved to the United States when she …
Alumni Profile — March 28, 2017
Maria Folvarska is an alumna of the 2016 CLS Russian program in Vladimir, Russia. She is currently a senior at the University of Illinois at Chicago majoring in history and mathematical computer science and minoring in French and Russian. She moved to the United States from Slovakia with her family…
Alumni Profile — March 28, 2017
Morgan Burdick is an alumna of the 2014 Urdu and 2016 Punjabi CLS Programs in Lucknow and Chandigarh, India, respectively. She is currently a student at Seattle University and works as a social worker with immigrant survivors of human trafficking, sexual assault, and domestic violence. After gradua…
Alumni Profile — March 28, 2017
Sonia Kim is an alumna of the 2016 CLS Korean program in Gwangju, South Korea. A former K-12 educator, she is currently an instructional designer at Udemy, an educational technology startup. She received her B.A. in English from Brown University and her Ed.M. in learning and teaching from the Harva…
Alumni Profile — March 28, 2017
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