Katherine Fleming-Strous is a Professional Skills and Development Training Manager in Hangzhou, China. She uses the skills she learned while attending Global College to provide on-site training and program development of professional skill sets aimed at increasing the effectiveness and capabilities of working with global clients. Katherine spent two years in China and a year on the Comparative Religion and Culture (CRC) course before graduating in May 2005.

Andrew Cote graduated from Friends World in 1997 and is currently a full-time Assistant Professor of English as a Second Language at Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Andrew received a Fulbright in TEFL and taught for one year in The Republic of Moldova, Eastern Europe, 2003-2004. (Received Fulbright at age 31, more than two decades younger than the age of the average Fulbright recipient).

Rebecca Harris graduated from Friends World in 2004 with a concentration in Peace & Conflict Studies. She is currently the head of U.S. fundraising for TLC, a Johannesburg orphanage I discovered while doing my senior thesis in South Africa. For more information about TLC visit www.tlc.org.za or www.tlc-usa.org.

Costas Christ graduated from Friends World in 1980 and received his MA from the University of Oregon in 1985. Costas is currently working for the National Geographic Society as an Editor and Columnist, also serving as a Chairman for the World Travel and Tourism Council-Tourism for Tomorrow Awards.

Julia Lynn Smith

After 6 months in a West African refugee camp and several internships with microfinance programs through Global College, Julia completed a master’s degree at the University of York in Postwar Recovery Studies and joined the board of directors for a small microfinance program in the Congo (DRC). She travelled to Liberia and the DRC for two and a half months to see the impact of war and development programs firsthand, and interviewed over 200 people for her master’s thesis. While working on her thesis, Julia was contacted by the International Organization for Migration’s mission for Iraq. She now serves as the capacity building focal point for the Iraq mission in Amman and will be working on counter-trafficking, foreign labor and business services development issues in the upcoming year. Global college gave her the perspective she needs to realistically visualize our beneficiaries’ needs and expectations, and the motivation to work long hours in a foreign country.

Melissa Sherman

Melissa Sherman graduated from Global College in 2009 and is living in Long Island. She is currently employed as the Training and Employment Manager for PathStone Corporations. PathStone is a not-for-profit community development and human service organization providing services to low-income families and economically depressed communities throughout New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, Vermont, and Puerto Rico.

Mira Dunham

Mira Dunham is currently serving Academic Assistant for the CRC Program 2010-2011. While with Global College, Mira studied in Central America, India, and China, and was also a student in the CRC program, traveling to Taiwan and Thailand. An eclectic individual, Mira has excavated as a field archaeologist at the Mayan site of Copan, worked with the park service in Costa Rica conserving sea turtle nesting habitats, taught ESL in China, and interned in the U.S. Senate. Her academic interests are indigenous cultures and minority rights, ethnography and cross-cultural studies. Mira is enthusiastic about her return to the Global College community to assist with the CRC program academically.

Heidi Hilman

Heidi currently resides in San Francisco, teaching for the Humanities department of the San Francisco Waldorf High School. Some of her courses include Ancient Civilization and Literature, Dante, and a senior elective on Pilgrimage. In addition to her role as a teacher, Heidi serves as the administrator of the International Program and works closely with students from Asia and Europe. Heidi served as the Assistant Director of CRC in 2008/2009.

Brittany Boroian

Brittany serves as the president of an online start-up called iShop4Microfinance.org. It's an innovative online portal where anyone can click through to do their online shopping, and then when they check out, 4% is donated to iShop4Microfinance, at no cost to the shopper. The 4% is then donated to three different organizations- currently, Kiva, Grameen Foundation, and ACCION International. As President, Brittany runs the day-to-day operations- working on and implementing strategy, overseeing micro-finance ambassadors, managing relations with micro-finance partners, and getting the word out about our site through social media platforms.

Immediately after her graduation from Global College, Brittany finished a Kiva fellowship in Nairobi, Kenya, working with one of Kenya's top micro-finance institutions, Faulu Kenya and will report for the Peace Corps starting in February 2011.

Brendan Smart

After his graduation in 2004, Brendan became a rare-book, art, and special collections librarian. He earned his MLIS from Long Island University's Palmer School of Library and Information Science and spent two years working as a museum educator at the Guggenheim in New York City. He currently serves as a university librarian at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

Anna Boiko-Weyrauch

Anna works as a public radio producer based in Seattle. She has produced stories for NPR, This American Life, The World, BBC Radio 4, Voice of America and many other shows and podcasts around the world. Since graduating from Global College, Anna reported from New York City, Accra, Ghana and Southern Alabama. She was recently chosen to be a producer-in-residence for KEXP in Seattle to do a series on stories about why music matters to everyone from astronauts to near high school drop-outs.

Kyle Weaner

Since graduating in May 2006, Kyle has continued to work with his teacher of Tibetan Medicine, Dr. Jampa Yonten. Kyle studied Tibetan Medicine as an independent project, writing his senior thesis on "Defining Health and Disease in Tibetan Medicine." Following graduation, he invited Dr. Yonten to the US to teach and facilitate healing retreats. In that first year, Kyle decided to become a physician in this ancient medical lineage. Now, four years later, he is working as an apprentice in the Tibetan Healing Center in Bangalore, India to become a Tibetan Medical Practitioner.