Staff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Gail Stevenson, Executive Director
gail@vermont.org

Gail served as the Director of International Programs at Champlain College. She is the former Director of the American Collegiate Consortium and a consultant to the Salzburg Seminar. Previously, she was a consultant with the World Bank, and has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. She was an AFS student in Norway and spent a year of college in Russia. She is fluent in both Norwegian and Russian. She holds a B.A. from Middlebury College, a cand. mag. from the University in Oslo and a Ph. D. in Economics from American University.

Eli Harrington, Director, International Visitor Leadership Program
eli@vermont.org

Eli is a native Vermonter from Winooski, whose multicultural character helped him learn from a young age to respect and appreciate his classmates from all over the world. He began to develop his international interests while in high school and traveled to France twice on exchange programs.

Eli attended Brandeis University where he majored in International and Global Studies-Communication and Media, with a minor in French and Francophone Studies and Journalism. His international interests led him to study three semesters of Mandarin before deciding to study abroad in Beijing in the summer of 2008. For ten weeks, Eli lived at the Beijing Language and Culture University, studying intensive Mandarin and experiencing local life and culture leading up to the 2008 Olympic Games. While in Beijing, Eli also worked as an intern at the Voice of America’s Beijing bureau. In his time there, he assisted in a variety of stories and themes from international wildlife trafficking to Olympics-related stories.