Anna Kozan participated in the 2023 CLS Spark for Russian hosted virtually by American Councils for International Education in Chisinau, Moldova and the 2024 CLS Russian Program hosted by American Councils for International Education in Tbilisi, Georgia. Anna graduated from Ramapo Co…
Rebecca Bernstein participated in the 2023 CLS Russian Program hosted by the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She is currently in her first year of the Masters of Eurasian, Russian, and Eastern European Studies program at Georgetown University. Rebecca has a Bachelor of A…
Cora Woloson participated in the 2023 CLS Hindi Program hosted by the American Institute of Indian studies (AIIS) in Jaipur, India. She has a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations with a concentration in Developing World Politics from the State University of New York at Geneseo (SUNY Geneseo)…
Mehreen Shahid participated in the 2023 CLS Arabic Program hosted by the Arab American Language Institute in Meknes, Morocco. She is currently a senior at Carleton College, where she studies biology and Arabic. Mehreen plans to use her Arabic skills to communicate with immigrant communities in…
Josh Phillips participated in the 2023 CLS Spark for Arabic hosted by the TAFL Center in Alexandria, Egypt and the 2024 CLS Arabic Program hosted by the Jordan Language Academy in Amman, Jordan. He is a recent graduate from Mississippi State University (MSU) where he studied Political Science,…
Hunter Linton participated in the 2023 CLS Portuguese Program hosted by Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Hunter is a recent graduate from Boston College, where he majored in Economics and Hispanic Studies. He plans to apply his CLS experience and Portuguese skills to a care…
Kirk Preston participated in the 2023 CLS Japanese Program hosted by Okayama University in Okayama, Japan. Kirk graduated from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and International Studies. He currently works at Deloitte as a Risk & Financial Advis…
Maria Guadalupe (Lupita) Partida participated in the 2023 CLS Korean Program hosted by Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea. Lupita is a third-year graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin pursuing master's degrees in Global Policy Studies and Information Studies. S…
Mileyka M. Rodríguez Figueroa participated in the 2023 CLS Korean Program hosted by Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea. Mileyka studies Industrial Design at Universidad Ana G. Mendez in Gurabo, Puerto Rico. She stays connected with Korean culture by volunteering at K-pop conc…
Eleanor (Ellie) McCutchen participated in the 2023 CLS Chinese Program hosted by Tamkang University in New Taipei City, Taiwan 2023. Ellie is a recent graduate from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where she majored in Political Science, Economics, and Sociology and minored in Ch…