Rebecca J. Mendoza is a PhD candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. Broadly, Rebecca’s scholarship centers Indigenous philosophy, material religion, and ritual survivance among humans and Other-than-human entities (plants, animals, ancestors, museum materials etc.)...

Ivano Fulgaro, language teacher, world traveler, Duck. After obtaining a Master's degree in Romance Languages at the University of Oregon he worked in many countries while presenting at multiple academic conferences and writing papers on cinematic representations of historical events. He is currentl...

James "Alex" Burns is a U.S. Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State. As of 2024, he has served in the Philippines and Madagascar. After graduating from the University of Oregon, Alex taught English in South Korea then moved to Washington, D.C. to work at the Foreign Service Instit...

Chris Fuglestad ‘14 is the Assistant Director for Health & Safety in the Office of Study Abroad at the University of Chicago. He has worked in the field of international education for over 10 years, and his roles have taken him around the world including time spent in Senegal and Québec. He rout...

Stacy Sage is the staff grant writer at Open Doors for Multicultural Families, a Seattle-area nonprofit. Since 2019 she has helped raise nearly $15 million in grant awards for her organization, which has a focus on immigrant and refugee families with members with disabilities. She believes that each...

Joe Piccolotti, bartender and spirits ambassador. Upon graduating from the UO he received a scholarship to attend an Italian language school in central Italy. Afterwards, he started an intership outside Milan teaching English and geology to middle and high school studets, and English to adults. Duri...

Catherine graduated with her BA from University of Oregon in 2013 with a major in Communication Disorders & Sciences and a minor in Spanish. She then went on to earn her MS from Loma Linda University in 2015 and is now a practicing speech-language pathologist dually licensed in Oregon and Califo...

Scarlett Sañudo Cox is an admissions advisor at IE University. Scarlett has lived in 5 countries, has an LLM in humanitarian law and human rights, and an MA in Peace and Conflict studies. She has focused her studies on capacity building, children’s rights, and peace negotiations. Her philosophy is t...

Ryan Hoover is the Director of Operations at Cleantech Open West Coast, home to over 400 cleantech start-ups from across the West....

Cooper Findlay is a passionate advocate for justice with a degree in History and Spanish from the University of Oregon. His studies in the Global Studies and Languages Department significantly enhanced his ability to serve as a lawyer and public defender. Driven by a commitment to fight for the unde...