Staff Directory
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Administration
Overall management of area financials, business, and personnel activities for the Office of International Programs (IP). Manages the IP fiscal staff regarding all fiscal operations and budgetary matters.
Principal assistant to the Director of Finance to provide specialized grant support to the faculty and staff in IP in accordance with applicable university and federal cost determination guidelines.
Acts as first point of contact for students, faculty and staff for WSU. Performs a variety of clerical duties as well as respond to inquiries concerning office/departmental services.
Serves as the sponsored student liaison for IP Fiscal. Works directly with foreign sponsors and international sponsored students regarding accounts receivable and student account billing. Other fiscal and administrative support areas include purchasing, accounts payable, payroll, travel advances, travel reimbursements, and POS cash deposits.
Develops, implements, and maintains technology for International Programs. Manages CRM system, configuration of virtual server environment, support of third party software products, and development of web applications and functionality.
Manages and coordinates day-to-day special visitation programs assigned by IP administration. This includes Intensive American Language and cultural programs, IYLEP, and other visitation based educational programs for students and scholars.
Provides overall fiscal administrative support for IP, with a strong emphasis on preparing complex travel budgets and making international travel arrangements. Other fiscal and administrative support areas include purchasing, accounts payable, immigration service center billing, travel advances, and travel reimbursements.
Provides fiscal support for the IALC faculty, students, and administration.
Overall management of administrative functions of IP and principal advisor to the Vice President. Lead and direct: IP operations, human resources/compliance, marketing/communications, and information systems.
Global Learning
Back-end support of students’ study abroad experience including mystudyabroad software support, transcript processing, placeholder credits and grades.
Advises all students interested in exchange and partnership programs as well as students from the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture, and students still deciding on a major regarding various global learning opportunities.
Global Learning resource room management, reception and office and program support.
Primary oversight for Global Learning including its role in campus internationalization, education abroad, Global Leadership Certificate and Global Case Competition.
Advises students in Carson College of Business and College of Education on study abroad and other global learning activities Advises students about and coordinates faculty-led programs in business, education, and engineering.
Advises students in Honors College on study abroad and other global learning activities. Advises students interested in and coordinates custom faculty-led programs and those offered by College of Arts and Sciences, WSU Spokane, 1st Gen Abroad.
Global Research and Engagement
Global Services
Acts as the primary contact for the Global Services department. Manages international students’ inquiries and provides timely support for immigration-related issues. Collaborates with Global Services staff, international student advisors, SEVIS coordinator, and Director to implement policies and provide international students and scholars with excellent support.
Manages and provides immigration services for all WSU department’s wishing to hire and/or host international personnel. Liaison with stakeholders regarding immigration updates and procedures. Works on complex immigration issues as Immigration Specialist in the J-1, H-1B, TN, O-1 and U.S. Permanent Residency categories. Assists as needed in international student immigration advising for F and J statuses.
Primary contact for international scholar and student intern inquiries. Assists departments wishing to host and/or hire international scholars and student interns. Contact for scholar programming and outreach.
I advise F-1 students on immigration issues and lead Global Services’ International Peer Mentor Program. With a Master’s degree in Global Human Development, I am particularly interested in how supporting international students can build capacity to solve development problems. Please contact me for students in the College of Arts and Sciences; the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences; and the Carson College of Business.
I work with the College of Education, College of Communications, and the College of Veterinary Medicine to make sure international students maintain their status while in the United States. I also am taking initiatives to address the mental health of international students while they are in the unique and stressful situation of studying abroad by providing weekly meditation sessions.
Provides strategic direction to develop and implement programs, services and policies supporting international students and scholars. Provides leadership to units supporting global students, global scholars, and the International Center.
Works as the SEVIS Coordinator and PDSO. Manages international student information systems and oversees SEVIS reporting. Coordinates the many offices and branch campus locations within WSU that enter data into the international student systems.
Advises students on F and J immigration issues. Contact for programming and outreach to campus and community. Liaison with key stakeholders regarding immigration/student issues.
Learn English
Intensive American Language Center
Teaches English as a Second Language. IALC experience: 2018-present.
Duties include reception, student assistance, correspondence, publications, and support for International Teaching Assistant testing.
Teaches English as a Second Language. IALC experience: 2019-present.
Teaches English as a Second Language. IALC experience: 2018-present.
Teaches English as a Second Language. IALC experience: 2019-present.
Fluent in Spanish. Enrolls Academic English, undergraduate and graduate pathways students in courses, works with departments on scheduling and advises students out of pathway. IALC experience: 2014-present.
Leads academic advising for Academic English, undergraduate and graduate pathways students. IALC experience: 2000-present.
Fluent in Spanish. Teaches English as a Second Language. IALC experience: 2014-present.
Fluent in Arabic. Manages curriculum and assessment across levels and oversees CEA accreditation and professional development of English language faculty. Teaches English as a Second Language. IALC experience: 2011-present.
Oversees International Teaching Assistant exams. Teaches English as a Second Language. IALC experience: 2004-present.
Teaches English as a Second Language. IALC experience: 2019-present.
Oversees the review and implement of authentic materials and themes for Academic English and pathways. Teaches English as a Second Language and in the Okinawa Summer Program. IALC experience: 2013-present.
Provides leadership and long-range planning for the IALC Academic English program and pathways. Oversees IALC efforts toward internationalization.
Speaks Mandarin Chinese. Teaches English as a Second Language. IALC experience: 2018-present.
Speaks French and Spanish and conversational Arabic. Works to integrate Blackboard into classroom instruction. Teaches English as a second language. IALC experience: 2014-present.
Speaks Thai. Teaches English as a Second Language. IALC experience: 2018-present.
Oversees English and discipline-specific academic support that is run out of the Learning Resource Center. Teaches English as a Second Language. IALC experience: 2018-present.
Speaks Japanese. Teaches English as a Second Language. IALC experience: 2010-present.
Teaches English as a Second Language. IALC experience: 2019-present.
Fluent in Spanish. Teaches English as a Second Language. IALC experience: 2014-present.
International Center
Oversees/manages IP-International Center to integrate international students into the campus and community and advises International Students’ Council.
Provides clerical support to IP-International Center, handles scheduling, filing, service hours, answering e-mails and acts as reception to foot traffic.
Helps coordinate IP-International Center (IC) events, services, and marketing. Mentors student interns, and supports co-curricular programming and IC initiatives. Assists with development and implementation of IC programs on and off campus.
International Undergraduate Admissions
Coordinates international undergraduate admission. Lead for international transfer credit, education abroad credit evaluation, and development of international articulation tables. Advises and processes international student applications.
Responsible for assisting prospective WSU international students, including application processing, foreign transcript evaluation, admissions decisions, and SEVIS I-20 processing.
Duties include reception, student and faculty assistance, correspondence, and publications.
Involved in all the steps of the international undergraduate admissions process, from recruiting to matriculation; including foreign transcript evaluation, transfer credit reporting, issuing I-20s, and managing IP student scholarships.
Leads and directs marketing, recruitment, and admission processes for WSU’s Intensive American Language Center and International Undergraduate Admissions. Manages agency relationships and establishes pathway partnerships.
INTO Washington State University
Serves as the Executive Director for INTO Washington State University.
