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After nearly 30 years working in the field of student exchange at AFS Intercultural Programs, I am now setting up my own consultancy working with a wide range of people and institutions around the globe to promote intercultural awareness and education.

Whether you're an exchange student (or hope to be one), a parent, a host family, an educator, an exchange program provider, a professional colleague or a friend, I'm happy to have ideas and information to share with you through this web site and look forward to the opportunity to work with you in the future.

About me:

Like many people in international education, my interest in other countries and cultures goes back to my childhood, especially to the summer I spent as an exchange student in Strasbourg, France where I lived day-to-day with a French family, speaking French exclusively. I came to realize how different each place in the world can be, and how fascinating! Quite naturally, I studied geography, earning a PhD from Syracuse University in 1985. Also, quite naturally, I found myself working for 29 years for AFS Intercultural Programs. There I developed a global education framework with the goal not only of supporting individual exchange students, but of actually bringing the richness of intercultural learning to the home and host community.

Currently, along with my research and writing, I am working on several projects that enhance study abroad and living abroad experiences, and working with other international educators and interculturalists to strengthen research in this area.

 I’m located in Brooklyn, NewYork, USA, working from my office in the home I share with my husband, Kevin Roth.

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