Global Buffs Updates

• Traveler's Tales: We ran our first Traveler’s Tales alumni event at Innisfree Coffee shop this February! It was a great chance for Education Abroad alumni to connect with one another and share their stories from abroad. We look forward to offering this event each semester in the future, and we hope you can join us!
   
   
• Natalie Coleman: Natalie studied abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark Spring of 2017. As part of her Environmental Design major, she took an interior architecture studio course where she realized her love for museum exhibition design. Because of this course, she decided to delve deeper into the field upon her return to Boulder. She is now an intern and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and has designed a public art exhibition piece for her Senior Capstone project in which she combines the techniques of art exhibition design with community engagement. Upon her imminent graduation this May, she hopes to continue gaining experience in the art museum field in any way she can.

• Liza Hensleigh: After years of dedicated service in the Office of International Education, Liza recently left her position to pursue her other passions. This included traveling the world with her fiancée, visiting Japan, Thailand, Spain, and Portugal. Now back in the U.S., Liza is building a new career as a financial advisor & planner. She looks forward to supporting & helping others in this new field!

• Erin Schol: In the 2003-2004 school year Erin studied International Relations at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland (attended school with Prince William and Duchess Catherine!) This experience abroad led Erin to explore more opportunities abroad, teaching English as a second language in Kobe, Japan, and Seoul, South Korea, where she specialized in early childhood education and early language acquisition. After living in Seoul for two years, she traveled throughout the country and visited the DMZ (de-militarized zone) between North and South Korea. Since returning to the States, she enrolled in a teaching licensure program and became a licensed teacher in Elementary and Early Childhood Education, while pursuing her master’s in Education and Human Development. Currently, Erin continues to work in education, for her alma mater, CU. You can find her at the CU Book Store, where she is an Academic Resources Coordinator, making sure students get the textbooks they need every semester.

• Benjamin Waddell: Ben graduated from CU Boulder in 2004 with a degree in International Affairs. While at CU he studied abroad in Nicaragua through the School for International Training (SIT). He said that this first experience outside of the US fundamentally changed his course in life. Since then Ben has lived in multiple Latin American countries, including Argentina and Mexico, and traveled extensively throughout the region. Today Ben finds himself in Nicaragua again, as the director of the same study abroad program he was a student in back in 2004.