Kathleen Evans
Director
A linguist by training, Kathleen has been working in summer intensive language and study abroad programs for two decades, and has directed programs at Arizona State University and Indiana University. Prior to this, Kathleen worked in private industry in Moscow.
Joey Bradshaw
Director of Defense and Strategic Initiatives
Dr. Joseph "Joey" Bradshaw specializes in the history of the West African Sahel in the 19th and 20th century. Joey is a proud alum of the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, where he studied Arabic. He served as a language analyst in the U.S. Navy for 10 years and currently manages federally funded language and culture programs.
Umida Khikmatillaeva
Curriculum Coordinator
Susan Hingle
Program Coordinator
Susan has an M.P.A in International Development Management and B.A. in Anthropology from Indiana University. She previously worked with Bridges Language Program and the American Studies- Zhejiang University Summer Program. She has spent brief periods traveling in Tanzania utilizing her limited Swahili.
Drew Kunard
Outreach and Recruitment Coordinator
Drew carries an M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey. He has over five years of study abroad program management experience and is an IU and Chinese Language Flagship alum. After completing his dual B.A. in International Studies and East Asian Studies at Bloomington, he lived in China for almost six years, successfully managed four study abroad programs on-site, and supported eleven cohorts of high school and college students for intensive language programs in cities such as Beijing, Xi’an, Shanghai, and Hangzhou.
Alonso Saldivar
Business Manager
Alonso Saldivar is the Business Manager for the Workshop and various programs hosted by the DLNSEO Suite in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He began working as a program assistant at Indiana University in 2007 for The Initiative for Minority Student Development summer program (IMSD) and has worked for IU’s Chinese Flagship Program since 2011. He began his current role as Business Manager in May 2020. Alonso has a Bachelor of General Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences and History from Indiana University as well as a Master of Arts in Humanities from The American Public University. Alonso has been a Director with Greyhound Boarding & Retirement Kamp, Inc, a 501(3) (c) dog sanctuary which has saved 157 dogs in 25 years.
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