The world is ADJECTIVE . Having grown up in a very ADJECTIVE area, I graduated from high school declaring that my career was going to be to plan other people’s international PLURAL NOUN and then go with them. I was going to see the world. I was also going to study LANGUAGE . I set off for college knowing only that I would study abroad.
Throughout my studies, that remained the only thing I knew I wanted to do and struggled to identify a career objective. During my study abroad in COUNTRY my junior year, I was PAST TENSE VERB and PAST TENSE VERB. With some time and introspection, I walked away from that experience thinking, “ PHRASE OF GREAT EXCITEMENT ! I can help other people through the challenges of pursuing global educational opportunities.”
I graduated with a degree in Spanish in 2008 and during the middle of the Great NOUN. The resulting surplus of jobs found me working at Office Max as an OFFICE SUPPLY manager. I determined that I needed a master’s degree to break into international education, but not before seeing more of the world. Off I went to teach NOUN in Chile for 4 months thinking I spoke Spanish only to have my host family bring in someone who spoke English for me after a day or two, because I was so quiet, working hard to understand what anyone was saying!
From there, I earned my master’s in College NOUN Affairs Leadership while working at the Grand Rapids Public Museum in all customer service roles, my favorite being operating the restored 1928 Spillman NOUN. I moved to Kansas to work as an international student NOUN ENDING IN ER at Kansas State University. I had a brief NOUN as a one-person international office at William Jewell College before joining the University of Missouri – Kansas City as the associate director of an ADJECTIVE combined international admission and advising office.
Over the years, I’ve visited 35 ADJECTIVE countries and 49 states needing only Idaho to complete my collection! (New university partnership opportunity? Eh? Eh?) I decided to have NOUN, which reduced my desire to travel, but not my desire to serve international students and global access to higher education. I was so excited to find a remote role with Shorelight that I even completed one of my phone interviews from PLACE , less than 36 hours after having my NOUN, thinking ADVERB I was going to be discharged before the interview. As a result, for the last 1 year and 4.5 months at Shorelight, I have been ADJECTIVE to have found a role that enables me to continue utilize the skills I’ve developed over the past decade.
As the Director of Enrollment Management, I ADVERB work with Cleveland State University and the University of Illinois Chicago to facilitate the relationship between the partner and our Shorelight teams, maintaining, managing, and communicating processes as needed. I am a champion un-sticker of stuck apps and I-20s, enrollment crystal ball reader and data compiler. I FEELING the challenges this role brings and can’t VERB to see what the future brings!
