Knowledge Community for Education Abroad
The Knowledge Community for Education Abroad serves professionals who advise U.S. students engaging in study, internship, work, and volunteer opportunities abroad; directors and administrators of such programs; representatives of overseas institutions that accept U.S. students; and faculty and administrators involved in international educational exchange.
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Advising and Recruitment in Education Abroad Network
This network serves professionals - in the United States and abroad - whose interests lie in assisting U.S. students engaging in education abroad. Resources and information address topics including program design, administration, and advising.
Developing and Managing Programs Abroad Network
This network serves professionals - in the United States and abroad - whose interests lie in the development and management of programs abroad. Resources and information address topics including program models, budgets, faculty programs, and standards assessment.
Managing an Education Abroad Office Network
This network serves professionals in the United States whose interests lie in the managing and education abroad office. Resources and information address topics including professional development and HR issues, strategic planning, advocacy, and campus programming and connections.
Special Focus Network: Simon Act Initiatives
As legislation moves through the U.S. Congress, universities and colleges across the United States are reviewing their capacity to send students abroad. This network provides resources for campuses who are establishing or expanding their education abroad initiatives – creating an office, developing new programs, seeking to increase the diversity of the students they are sending, looking for ways to send students to new destinations, and preparing staff and faculty to work with these new students and programs.
Education Abroad Leadership Team
NAFSA members may contact leaders through the online membership directory. 
- Cynthia Banks, Chair
AustraLearn/AsiaLearn/EuroLearn
- Stacia Zukroff Biel, Past-chair
CAPA International Education
- Kerry Geffert, Chair-elect
American Institute For Foreign Study
- Sue Atkins, Information Coordinator
- Jon Stauff, Web Information Coordinator
The College of New Jersey
- Régine Lambrech, Education & Professional Development Coordinator
Columbia University
- Rob Hallworth, Subcommittee and Outreach Coordinator
George Washington University
- Ann Halpin, Regional Outreach Coordinator
Abroadco
- James Gehlhar, 2010 Annual Conference Committee (ACC), Member
East Carolina University
- Amy Henry, Network Leader, Managing an EA Office
Georgia Institute of Technology
- Amanda Reinig, Network Leader, Advising and Recruitment in EA
Pennsylvania State University-Altoona
- Chris Musick, Network Leader, Developing and Managing Programs Abroad
Otterbein College
- Carl A. Herrin, Network Leader, Simon Act Initiatives
Global Education Solutions LLC
The Education Abroad team has charged a number of subcommittees and liaisons to coordinate and carry out the work needed for the education abroad community.