STUDY ABROAD + SERVICE-LEARNING
IPSL programs combine academic studies and community service and full cultural immersion to give students a deeper, more meaningful study abroad experience.
Sr. Jose Luis Arreguín
Program Director, Guadalajara, México
Director of International Programs, Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara. M.A. in International Administration, Central Michigan University; also studied at Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (Mexico), Georgetown University, University of Kagoshima (Japan), and the World Bank Institute.
Sra. Martha Arreguín Romero
Program Director, Guadalajara, México
B.S., biology, Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara. Certificate in Landscape Design, Universidad en la Comunidad, Jalisco.
Erin Barnhart
Program Director, M.A. in International Development and Service, Portland, Oregon USA
Erin Barnhart is the Director of Volunteerism Initiatives with Idealist.org. She serves on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Volunteer Administration, the Board of Advisors for Volunteer Positive, and as an adjunct instructor at the University of Oregon. She also chairs the National Organizations Volunteerism Network and the Effective Practices Workgroup of the Building Bridges Coalition (a project of the Brookings Institution's Initiative on International Volunteering and Service). In 2004, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study volunteer centers in Canada. Currently, Erin is a Ph.D. student at Portland State University where she studies host organization perspectives on international service.
Ms. Lavinia Bracci
Program Director, Siena, Italy
Founder and director of The International Center for International Exchange. She holds a diploma in Translation and Simultaneous Translation in German and Russian from the Special School for Translators and Interpreters in Rome. She has published a number of articles in the field of language learning and is the author of the Italian language text Dimmi Tutto!.
Sr. Arturo Canga Tueros
Program Director, Segovia, Spain
Ms. Jessica Cronin
Program Director, Adelaide, Australia
Manager of the Summer & Winter School at the University of Adelaide, Jess holds a Bachelor of Media and is currently completing a Bachelor of Law and Master of Communication (Public Relations). Since an early age, Jess has been involved in a number of community organisations as a volunteer and a board member. It is through these experiences that Jess has learnt the importance of being an actively engaged member of the community. Jess is thrilled to be co-ordinating IPSL’s Australian program which will see North American students working with a number of different community organisations in Adelaide, South Australia.
Mr. Adam Dedman
Program Director, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Assistant to the President for International Affairs, Payap University
Director, South East Asian Institute of Global Studies
Adam grew up in the US where he was raised bilingual English and Japanese. He completed a BA in Comparative Religion and Philosophy from Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. During graduate school, Adam received a fellowship from the Japan-America Society to conduct a year of research in Japan on post-WWII Japanese religious movements. It was during this year in Japan that Adam changed his field to Thai Studies. Adam graduated with a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University where he studied Thai religion with Dr. Donald K. Swearer, a leading scholar in the field of Thai Buddhism and long-term researcher in Chiang Mai.
Dr. Jennifer Hall
Program Director, Kingston, Jamaica
Ph.D.(Education) from Northern Caribbean University, Jamaica, with an emphasis on Curriculum and Instruction; M.Sc.(Workforce Education and Development), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; B.A.(Hons) Language and Social Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona. Senior Lecturer, University of Technology, Jamaica. Previous positions include: Head of Communication 2000-2001; Head, Department of Liberal Studies 2001-2007. Research interests: Gender Issues, Teaching/learning techniques and strategies. Lectures in communication skills, and research.
Ms. Andrea Losada Vazquez
Program Director, Ecuador - Guayaquil
Bachelor of Arts in Translation and Interpretation with over 5 years of experience. Language skills and hands-on experience in teaching and tutoring in several internationally recognized institutions with certification in Cultura y Lengua Española at Universidad de León, Spain.
Prof. Tania Ledergerber
Program Director, Ecuador - Quito/Galápagos Islands
M.A. in International Service and Development Studies, University of Surrey Roehampton, London, and Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, México (IPSL M.A. program); B.A. in Sociology for Development at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. Program Director and professor for IPSL Quito Program. Also serves as Director for the Integrative Cultural Research Project, Kalamazoo College (Michigan, US) in Quito, Ecuador; Director of the Congal Biomarine Reserve, Fundación Jatun in Muisne, Esmeraldas, Ecuador; and Coordinator for the Biological Reserve, Fundación Jatun Sacha, Quito, Ecuador.
Ms. Veronique Martin
Program Director, Montpellier, France
Veronique MARTIN became Director in 1999 and developed the IML into the Institut Mediterraneen de Langues & Services (IMLS) in 2001. Since then the IMLS increased its service activities to include a hospital for children, food banks, rehabilitation centers and tutoring activities for training teachers. Veronique MARTIN’s dedication to Service-Learning resulted in a prize rewarding her outstanding aid to handicapped people : “Victoires de l’Association des Paralysés de France”
Dr Kalyan Ray
Program Director, IPSL, Kolkata (Calcutta), India.
Professor Kalyan Ray (Ph.D. University of Rochester), a noted Indian scholar and former close collaborator with Mother Teresa, won the 2006 NISOD Award for Teaching Excellence. He co-authored "Visions of Service," a comparative theological treatise on the concept of Service in the major religions of the world. He is the author of several works of literary criticism, books of translation into English (including "City Of Memories" published some years ago by Viking Penguin with a preface by Allen Ginsberg) and the critically acclaimed novel "Eastwords." He is currently finishing his novel on the Indian and Irish Diaspora. He is married to the celebrated Indian film director Aparna Sen and has acted in major roles in two feature films in India.
Dr. Arnab Ray
Program Coordinator, IPSL, Kolkata (Calcutta), India.
Assistant Professor in English, Rabin Mukherjee College, University of Calcutta and Visiting Faculty, Department of English, Rabindra Bharati University.
Dr. Chantal Thery-Boyron
Program Director, Montpellier, France
Chantal THERY-BOYRON was the founding President of the Institut Mediterraneen de Langues (IML) whose aim was to develop study-abroad programs and especially Service-Learning. The IML was able to provide services which could not be offered by the university. The IML became the IPSL France program as early as 1988. Students have thus been able to link up theory in the classroom at the University for French language and IMLS for a French Institutions course and practice in their community service activities.
Dr. Michael Williams
Program Director, Accra, Ghana
Michael Williams is Chairman of the Aya Centre, a single-purpose, multi-service organization, located in Accra, Ghana, designed to enhance the learning experience and cultural awareness of persons traveling to Ghana. He is also a former Professor at the African University College of Communications (AUCC), also located in Accra, where he served in a dual capacity as the Director for Africana Studies and the Dean of International Programmes. For twelve years prior to his work with the Aya Centre and AUCC, Dr. Williams served as the Resident Director in Ghana for the Council on International Educational Exchange. During this period he was also an adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Ghana. Before moving to, and settling in Ghana, Dr. Williams taught at various universities in the United States for fifteen years—including Fisk University, Binghamton University, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and last serving as an Associate Professor of Sociology and the Director of Africana Studies at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts. He earned his BA at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Sociology, and his MA and Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Williams researches, writes, and publishes in the areas of the sociology of knowledge, social movements, the political economy of development, and Pan-Africanism. He is also the founder and editor of The Nkrumaist Review: Pan-African Perspective on African Affairs.