Kevin Sullivan is the assistant director of education abroad at Case Western Reserve University, helping students find and plan study, research, internship, and co-op opportunities around the world. He is also a member of the NAFSA Rainbow SIG leadership team.

Jackie serves as Program Coordinator for International Education at Howard Community College. Her passion for travel during her own undergraduate experience led her to pursue a professional journey within the wonderful world of International Education. She earned a B.A. from Rider University and an M.Ed. in Student Affairs from Clemson University. Following her graduate work Jackie has been dedicated to empowering and supporting students holistically as they work toward becoming productive global citizens. She is a big believer in the positive effects experiential education has on student development and helping them understand the classroom can be defined as much more than just the traditional four walls of a brick-and-mortar.

Valerie serves as an Assistant Director in the Office of Education Abroad at Case Western Reserve University where she works primarily with faculty-led study abroad programs.

As an undergraduate at the University of Puget Sound, Valerie studied abroad at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan. Valerie spent five years teaching English in Niigata, on the JET Programme, and Tokyo, Japan before returning to the United States to start a career in higher education. After earning her MAEd in Leadership in Higher Education from Baldwin Wallace University,

Valerie has worked at numerous small and mid-sized private institutions and nonprofit organizations throughout the midwest.

Tonya Veltrop is the Assistant Director of international health, safety and security for the University of Missouri.

Her 20+ years in international education have included many rewarding experiences in admissions and recruiting, advising, enrollment management, international student services, and education abroad.

She currently serves on the NAFSA Education Abroad Health and Safety subcommittee and is an active member of the Forum on Education Abroad, the Overseas Security Advisory Council's Academia Sector Committee, Pulse: Higher Education International Health and Safety Professionals, Women in Security and the Global Leadership League.

She was recently awarded a Fulbright International Education Administrators award to Japan and she enjoys mentoring colleagues new to the field of International Education and coordinating a hybrid international educators' network which has been meeting monthly for over 15 years.

You can find her on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/tveltrop.

Todd Lee Goen is an international educator with over 20 years of instructional and administrative experience at public universities in the United States. Most recently he served as Director of Global Education and Senior International Officer at Virginia Military Institute (VMI). Prior to VMI, Goen held full-time faculty positions at Christopher Newport University, Purdue University Fort Wayne, and Clemson University, teaching courses in human communication and quantitative research.

His previous university administrative leadership includes:

Faculty Director for Cultural Communication Competence in Benelux, Internship Director, Public Speaking Coordinator, and Chair of International Studies Advisory Committee.

Professionally, Goen is active in leadership of a number of professional organizations. He is a former Chair and Coach of the NAFSA Academy, an active member of NAFSA’s Trainer Corps, and an IDI Qualified Administrator. He’s served on multiple Forum on Education Abroad Working Groups, the AIEA Strategic Planning Taskforce, and currently is a member of the AIEA Professional Development and Engagement Committee.

Goen’s scholarly accomplishments include over seventy-five presentations as well as service as journal, conference, and grant reviewers. His scholarship and professional writing appears in publications such as Communication Research Reports, Family Science Review, International Educator, and the Journal of Global Initiatives: Policy, Pedagogy, and Perspective.

Goen is an Honors College Graduate with a BA in Computer Science, French, and Vocational Ministry from Harding University, holds an MA in Communication from the University of Arkansas, and completed all

coursework toward a PhD in Communication from the University of Georgia.

He is the 2020 recipient of SSCA’s John I Sisco Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2022 recipient of NAFSA’s Lily von Klemperer Award for supporting and strengthening professional development in education abroad.