• Date and place of birth: March 31, 1955, Denver
• Family: husband Bo, son Taylor and daughter Molly
• What study abroad in Arkansas means now: With any luck, it is (or will be soon) considered an essential component of the undergraduate educational experience.
• Years ago, for my daughter's "How Our Parents Use Math Day" at school, I taught them about foreign exchange currencies and exchange rates. I send money all over the world, so I still think in numbers and budgets.
• Fantasy dinner guests: my Dad (he died when I was in college); J. William Fulbright; Jane Goodall; Mahatma Gandhi; and Tawakkol Karman, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 2011 (I just met her in May and I want more time).
• If I were stranded on a desert island, I'd have to have: someone with me who has better survival skills than I have.
• My greatest fear: that I will wake up one morning and discover that my life has been a dream.
• A favorite hiking spot of mine: anywhere in the Colorado Rockies.
• The best decision I ever made was to have children.
• I knew I'd gone from being the study abroad person to running a study abroad office when students would walk in the door and wouldn't know who I am, or ask for one of my co-workers.
• I didn't really think I had a job until someone came one day and said, 'I'm really interested in having your job [as Director of Study Abroad] one day.' It had never occurred to me!
• When I retire, I'll probably be a host family for exchange students.
• If things don't go wrong, it's not an international trip.
• A word to sum me up: loyal.
High Profile on 07/26/2015