Meet the Staff
Box 843043
Richmond, Virginia 23284
Phone: (804) 827-7882
Fax: (804) 828-2552
Email: abroad@vcu.edu
Stephanie Tignor, Director
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Simone Biasuzzi, Adviser
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Regional advising areas:
- First Advising Sessions
- General advising
- UK and Ireland
- Australia, New Zealand and Oceania
- Middle East
- Asia
- France and French-speaking locations
Amy Miller, Adviser
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Amy Miller joined the Global Education Office in 2019. She graduated from the University of Mary Washington with a B.A. in Geography and Spanish. Amy studied abroad in Bilbao, Spain and Buenos Aires, Argentina, interned and researched in the cloud forest of Guatemala and has traveled to many other countries in Latin America and Europe. She also graduated from SIT Graduate Institute with a M.A. in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management. There she worked with SIT Study Abroad in Morocco offering student affairs support and researching intercultural competency development. Amy is here to advise students towards making their study abroad dreams a reality and to support existing and new program initiatives.
Regional advising areas:
- Latin America & Caribbean
- Europe (except UK, Ireland & France)
- Russia
- Africa
- Multi-country programs
Sarah Young Carrier, Academic Advising Coordinator
Sarah Carrier joined the Global Education Office in 2008 after graduating from Allegheny College with a degree in International Studies and Spanish. Sarah studied abroad with American University’s Washington Semester Program and has traveled through Western Europe, Asia, and Central and South America. She is also a graduate of the VCU School of Education’s Counselor Education program where she focused on the importance of cultural exchange and the career development of college students. Sarah joins the Education Abroad staff in assisting returnees with their career development and professional goals, as well as working with incoming exchange students.
Advising areas
- Returnee advising
- Curtin University
- University of Córdoba
- University of Westminster
- University of São Paulo
- University of the West of England
- University of Guadalajara
- Bauhaus University
- Fudan University
- VCU School of the Arts in Qatar
- University of Messina
- National Institute of Design in India