Kelly K. is a Passionate about creating global citizens 🌎 at Academic Studies Abroad (ASA). Colleagues describe them as "Kelly is a tech-savvy, intuitive, and detail-oriented professional with extensive experience in international education and in leveraging Terra Dotta's global engagement platform to serve a diverse range of stakeholders. Most importantly, she is a dedicated and supportive colleague. While managing her own packed schedule in an ever-changing and demanding role, she would still find time to support and guide coworkers and collaborate in finding creative solutions for client challenges. Kelly has both integrity and an incredible work ethic and will be an asset wherever she goes." and "I had the pleasure of working with Kelly for over 10 years when we were colleagues at Ball State University. During that time, Kelly consistently demonstrated the strong motivation, initiative and good judgment to successfully manage the university’s international programs. Successful management of higher education international programming is often a tug of war between the competing interests of institutional administration and faculty, and the recognition by experienced international professionals of the need to ensure financial and academic integrity, and risk management oversight in program development and delivery. It is a fine balance that Kelly consistently managed with tact, expertise, and proficiency. I believe Kelly’s strength lies in her ability to draw on a strong and varied administrative background in international education, coupled with an academic perspective which focused on student centric disciplines. This unique combination allows her to build strong relationships across varied and multiple levels of stakeholders to successfully manage responsibilities, determine areas of improvement, and guide projects and strategic initiatives. In addition, Kelly’s ability to recognize emerging issues of concern, recommend appropriate courses of action and resolve problems and challenges were of tremendous value and benefit to the office. Her problem solving / analytical skills are highly developed and transferable to the myriad concerns of any large organization serving a broad customer base. Finally, Kelly brought compassion, empathy and humor to her position. She was able to clearly articulate the often confusing and bureaucratic processes involved in international programming processes in a manner which our students, many of them apprehensive and uninformed, found transparent, comfortable, and complete. Kelly has consistently proven herself a capable individual who possesses the motivation and integrity to make use of every opportunity afforded her, and I believe she will continue to be an asset, contributor, and supporter of any individual that is lucky enough to call her a colleague."