Kathleen Fairfax
Associate Vice President, OVPGE
Director, Center for Global Education Services  Fairfax is associate vice president for global engagement and director of the Center for Global Education Services in ASU’s Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement. She oversees academic programs for student mobility and the development of strategic initiatives to internationalize the student experience and to enhance and expand ASU’s global programs and presence.
Prior to joining ASU, Fairfax was director of the Office of Study Abroad at Michigan State University for seven years and served in similar roles at Purdue University and Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she was a tenured Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Information Agency, serving in Washington, D.C. and at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. She holds a master’s degree in political science/international relations from Indiana University/Bloomington and a bachelor’s degree in political science and Spanish from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. Fairfax is a member of NAFSA The Association of International Educators, the Council on International Educational Exchange and the Forum on Education Abroad. She also serves on the Academic Consortium Board for the London-based Centres for Academic Programs Abroad. | Esther Moon
Senior Business Manager
Center for Global Education Services  Moon joined the Study Abroad Office in August 2004 and manages finance, operations and human resources for the Center for Global Education Services.
Over the past 20 years at ASU, she has worked for the College of Business, Extended Education, the Barrett Honors College and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She also earned her bachelor’s degree in political science while working at ASU, taking one or two classes each semester. Born in Germany, Moon came to the United States and Arizona at the age of three. She been here ever since and considers herself “an almost-native Arizonan.” She is a self-proclaimed “homebody” and loves to hang out with her husband and kids, spending much of her free time at school activities, gymnastics, basketball and baseball practices and games. When she can find the time she enjoys gardening. Moon suspects she is probably the only person in the Study Abroad Office that doesn’t like to travel, unless it’s by car. Her philosophy is “someone has to stay here and pay the bills.” |
Joy White
Associate Director
International Students & Scholars Office White joined the ASU team in November 2005. Currently, she provides administrative oversight and leadership to the international students side of ISSO, including day-to-day operation and programming efforts. She serves as ASU's Principal Designated School Official with oversight of SEVIS compliance for the F-1 student population and Alternate Responsible Officer for the J-1 program.
White holds a master’s degree in secondary education from ASU and a master’s degree in public affairs management from the University of Southern Mindanao, Philippines. She is a member of NAFSA and has served as moderator for F-1 Regulation for Beginners Workshops at NAFSA national conferences. | Candy Sandoval
Interim Program Manager
International Students & Scholars Office  Sandoval came to Arizona State University in December 1998. Her career working with foreign nationals started in the Office of Human Resources, where her primary focus was to assist in meeting the needs of international students, faculty, scholars and staff on tax compliance and immigration documentation issues. That led to her interest in working in other international offices at ASU.
She joined the International Faculty and Scholars Office in the Center for Global Education Services in November 2007, where her area of responsibility includes processing and filing employment-related immigration petitions for faculty and staff upon the request of the university. She also serves as an advisor to various departments, staff and faculty. |
Dan Hart
Assistant Director
Study Abroad Office  Hart is part of the Study Abroad Office management team. He works with OVPGE leadership and staff to increase participation in ASU’s numerous study abroad programs, in coordination with other units and individuals around the university and among university partners and constituent groups.
Hart began work in the ASU Study Abroad Office as a program coordinator, advising students and serving as a liaison with academic units to facilitate student participation in study abroad. He has nearly ten years’ experience in international education. He came to ASU from a private study abroad program provider in Tempe, where he served for more than three years, first as a study abroad advisor and then as a university relations coordinator. In that capacity, he traveled the United States, working with colleges and universities to promote study abroad opportunities for undergraduate students. Hart has degrees in French and Jewish studies from Indiana University and has studied abroad once in France and twice Israel. He is pursuing a master’s degree in intercultural communication at ASU’s Hugh Downs School of Human Communication. | Amy Shenberger
Assistant Director
Study Abroad Office  As a manager in the Study Abroad Office, Shenberger focuses on student programming and establishing inter-institutional student agreements.
Shenberger earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in English literature and art from Schreiner University in the Texas hill country. During that time, she studied Japanese language and culture in Nagasaki, Japan for a year, earning an associate degree from Nagasaki Wesleyan. After one semester back in the United States, she decided to skip her graduation ceremony and spent her final semester studying in London, then traveling in Europe for the summer. Shenberger returned to Japan for three more years to teach English as a second language to elementary and middle school students in the rural town of Tensui, Kumamoto. After traveling the Asia Pacific region and becoming a certified rescue scuba diver, she returned to the United States to start master’s program in international and intercultural management at the School for International Training in Vermont, which included a one-year practicum as the assistant dean of students at Huron University in London. To combine her interests in a warm climate and a great job facilitating overseas study, she joined the ASU Study Abroad Office in January, 2004. She has been a member of NAFSA since 2001. |
|  Darveaux is responsible for reviewing and processing departmental expenditures, deposits and travel. She ensures that effective internal controls are in place and is responsible for financial tracking and planning for the Study Abroad Office. She researches and resolves discrepancies and advises staff on financial and operational matters.
Prior to joining the Center for Global Education Services, Darveaux worked for Herberger College of the Arts. Her international background led Jacqueline to her current position. She was born in Panama City, Panama. Panama is home to 88 colleges and universities, more than half of which host study abroad opportunities. Darveaux’s upbringing in a global epicenter for international studies enhanced her understanding of and ability to support international programming at the university level. Darveaux earned a degree in accounting at St. Joseph’s College in New York and a Master’s in finance at Western International University in Arizona. She is a member of Delta Mu Delta International Honor Society and a member of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce. She also is a member in the Golden Key International Honour Society. | Angie Abdelmonem
Administrative Specialist
Center for Global Education Services  Abdelmonem provides support to the associate vice president for global engagement as well as to the Study Abroad and International Faculty and Scholars offices. She joined CGES in 2008 and previously worked in the International Programs office at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where she spent two years coordinating and advising on study abroad programs and performing numerous other administrative duties.
The daughter of an Air Force veteran, Abdelmonem grew up in various locations in the United States and Europe, including California, Nevada, Virginia and Germany. While living in Germany, her family traveled extensively throughout the country, as well as to Luxemburg and the Netherlands. As an undergraduate at UNLV, she first traveled to the Middle East to participate in an archaeological dig in Jordan, where she lived in the field among the Bedouin. She later returned to the region, this time to Egypt, where she completed a semester study abroad at the American University in Cairo. Following graduation, she returned to Egypt, got married, worked at the Giza-Saqqara Inspectorate and participated in a dig with the Giza Plateau Mapping Project. In 2004, she again returned to Egypt upon completion of her master’s degree in anthropology at ASU, Egypt and spent a year working with a non-governmental organization focused on women’s rights issues. She plans to work part time on her doctorate while working at ASU. |
Bernard Beamsley
Immigration Programs Specialist
International Students & Scholars Office  Beamsley began his employment at ASU in 1999, after serving in various positions with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for more than 29 years. His areas of responsibility include processing and filing employment-related immigration petitions for faculty and staff upon the request of the university and administering the Exchange Visitor Program. He also serves as an advisor to various departments, staff and faculty. Beamsley also is a passport acceptance agent, responsible for accepting and processing applications for U.S. passports at the ASU Passport Acceptance Office.
| Stefanie Bobar
Senior Program Coordinator
Study Abroad Office  Bobar works with Study Abroad Office management and colleagues to develop, promote and administer ASU’s diverse menu of study abroad programs, in coordination with academic departments and university partners.
Bobar was bitten by the travel bug early on: she was born in Belgium while her parents were stationed outside of Brussels. (Her Dad was career military.) Growing up as an “Army brat” gave her the opportunity to live in various locations throughout the United States, as well as to return to Europe to live for three years in Mannheim, Germany. She has a degree in anthropology with a minor in humanities and a master’s in library science, both from the University of Arizona. Despite her Wildcat background, Bobar has been at ASU since fall 1996 when she was hired by the Center for Latin American Studies Press. She coordinated the center’s Ecuador Summer Field School from its inception in 1999 through 2003. She joined the Study Abroad Office in 2004. Bobar currently coordinates all of ASU’s study abroad programs in Bonaire, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama. |
William “Bill” Cravener
Immigration Programs Specialist
International Students & Scholars Office  Cravener came to ASU in August 2005, with more than 30 years of experience in various positions with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. His primary area of responsibility is the J-1 Exchange Visitor Program.
| Denise Endow
Program Coordinator
Study Abroad Office  Endow works with Study Abroad Office management and colleagues to develop, promote and administer ASU’s diverse menu of study abroad programs, in coordination with academic departments and university partners.
Endow’s love of traveling abroad started in junior high school when she participated in an exchange program to Tokushima, Japan. Since then, she has traveled to such exotic destinations as Australia and Ecuador. She earned a bachelor of interdisciplinary studies with honors at ASU, where her concentrations were tourism and international geography. Endow joined the Study Abroad Office in March 2006. In her current role, she enjoys assisting students to experience the cultures, sights and sounds (and smells), politics, lifestyles and cuisine of other places around the globe. Endow currently coordinates all of ASU’s study abroad programs in Australia, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, New Zealand, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. |
Barbara Fleming
Program Coordinator
Study Abroad Office  Fleming works with Study Abroad Office management and colleagues to develop, promote and administer ASU’s diverse menu of study abroad programs, in coordination with academic departments and university partners.
While pursuing a master’s in French literature and working as a graduate instructor of French at ASU, she participated as both a student and teaching assistant in the Quebec summer programs of 2004 and 2005, and Lyon (France) summer programs in 2006 and 2007. Fleming joined the Study Abroad Office in spring 2008. Childhood experiences living in France, Mexico, England, Wales and Iran cultivated in her a life-long passion for international travel. She endeavors to help make the adventure of experiential learning through cultural immersion not only a dream, but a reality for students at ASU. Fleming currently coordinates all of ASU’s study abroad programs in Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, France, Greece, Netherlands and Switzerland. | Kim Foster
Senior Office Specialist
U.S. Passport Acceptance Office  Foster began working in the Graduate College in 1988 and joined the International Programs Office in September 2001. She serves as an acceptance agent and is happy to answer any questions regarding passport application issues. After spending 33 years in Kansas, Arizona is now her home. She graduated from Fort Hays State University in 1976 with a bachelor’s degree in music so it makes sense that she has worked in an office ever since.
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Michael Girsch
Program Coordinator
Study Abroad Office  Girsch works with Study Abroad Office management and colleagues to develop, promote and administer ASU’s diverse menu of study abroad programs, in coordination with academic departments and university partners.
He joined the staff in December 2006 after completing his master’s degree in post secondary education: student affairs from the University of Northern Iowa. During his graduate work, Girsch completed an internship in Liverpool, England and attended a Spanish language institute in Cuzco, Peru. His international educational experience began as an undergraduate when he spent a semester studying in Wales at the University of Swansea. It was during this experience that he gained a love of travel and an interest in the administrative side of international programs. After the completion of his undergraduate degree in communications/electronic media (also at the University of Northern Iowa), Girsch worked in the feature film business in Minneapolis and Los Angeles. He incorporates aspects of both degrees and experiences into his work at ASU. Girsch currently coordinates all of ASU’s study abroad programs in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Peru, Scotland and Wales. Girsch also coordinates the Semester at Sea program. | Rochelle Gorman
International Student Advisor – Immigration
International Students & Scholars Office  Gorman joined ASU after earning her bachelor's degree in political science from ASU in spring 2005. As a Designated School Official (DSO) for ASU, she provides immigration advising and support to the F-1 student population to assist them in the maintenance of their immigration status and ensure SEVIS compliance. She is a member of NAFSA.
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Diane Guzy
Administrative Secretary
Center for Global Education Services  Guzy provides administrative and secretarial support with emphasis on customer service to the Study Abroad Office, the International Faculty and Scholars Office and the Passport Acceptance Office.
She has more than ten years of customer service and office experience. Before coming to the Center for Global Education Services, she served in Residential Life and the ASU Bookstore. She also held administrative assistant and data coordinator responsibilities in international commerce and the university setting. Guzy’s interests include international cultures (from her time living in Japan), tutoring international students and her family’s global travels and study abroad experiences. She has an associate degree from Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh, Pa. | Chung-Ning Huang
Management Intern
International Students & Scholars Office  Huang serves as a management intern for the the international students side of ISSO. She has been with the office since August 2008 and is responsible for F- 1 immigration documents processing, OPT database management and ISO advising.
As an international student herself, she has a deep understanding of international students’ language and cultural barriers when they first come into a foreign country. Her workplace provides great opportunity for her to help international students. Huang holds two master's degrees from ASU: communication studies, awarded in December 2005; and linguistics, awarded in June 2007. She is currently working on her third, a master's in curriculum and instruction. |
Patrick Kane
Immigration Programs Specialist
International Students & Scholars Office  Kane began his employment at ASU in 1996, after serving in various positions with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for more than 27 years. His areas of responsibility include processing and filing employment-related immigration petitions for faculty and staff upon the request of the university and administering the Exchange Visitor Program. He also serves as an advisor to various departments, staff and faculty. Kane also is a passport acceptance agent, responsible for accepting and processing applications for U.S. passports at the ASU Passport Acceptance Office.
| Michelle Laws
Program Coordinator
Study Abroad Office  Laws works with Study Abroad Office management and colleagues to develop, promote and administer ASU’s diverse menu of study abroad programs, in coordination with academic departments and university partners.
She came to the Study Abroad Office in 2006 from the ASU English department, where she worked as an Academic Advisor for seven years. Her international experience began in high school when she was selected as a Tempe Sister Cities delegate to Regensburg, Germany. She enjoyed her time there so much that she began studying German as an undergraduate at ASU. To improve her language proficiency she decided to spend her junior year abroad in Regensburg through the ASU exchange program. It was the most rewarding year of her undergraduate study. She is passionate about providing students with similar life changing international experiences. Laws has bachelor’s degrees in English and German and a master’s degree in teaching English as a second language, all from ASU. Laws currently coordinates all of ASU’s study abroad programs in Austria, Denmark, England, Germany and Sweden. Laws also coordinates the Kampsville Field School, Capital Scholars and Southwest New Mexico programs. |
Patty Lee
Office Specialist
U.S. Passport Acceptance Office  Lee joined ASU in 1994 in the Department of Kinesiology. She came to the Passport Acceptance Office in July 2004, as a Passport Acceptance Agent and assists the International Faculty and Scholars Office staff.
| Eric Leinen
Program Coordinator
Study Abroad Office  Leinen works with Study Abroad Office management and colleagues to develop, promote and administer ASU’s diverse menu of study abroad programs, in coordination with academic departments and university partners.
Leinen works directly with outbound ASU study abroad students and incoming foreign exchange students, coordinating closely with ASU’s faculty and advisors, as well as parents and other community members. Leinen came to ASU in August 2006 from Minnesota State University – Moorhead, where he worked in the Office of International Programs. He has four years of experience in international education and studied overseas on two separate occasions as an undergraduate. He holds a degree in English/writing and is nearing completion of a master’s in counseling and student affairs, both from MSUM. He enjoys traveling and considers Prague, Singapore and Winnipeg his favorite international cities. He lives in Tempe with his wife, Jaime. Leinen currently coordinates all of ASU’s study abroad programs in Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. |
Claudette Nadeau
Immigration Programs Specialist
Students & Scholars Office  Nadeau specializes in the J-1 Exchange Visitor Program, assisting ASU departments to bring international scholars and professors to the university. She helps to translate sometimes-complicated rules and regulations into a smooth process that lead to meaningful international. She reviews and adjudicates applications, monitors progress of the visa-issuing process and welcomes new arrivals, helping them comply with Department of State regulations while they are in this country. Nadeau brings extensive experience in immigration matters, having worked for the Immigration and Naturalization Service for twenty years, both as an inspector on the Canadian and Mexican borders, and as an adjudicator in Boston and Phoenix.
| Laura K. Tardif
Program Coordinator
Study Abroad Office  Tardif works with Study Abroad Office management and colleagues to develop, promote and administer ASU’s diverse menu of study abroad programs, in coordination with academic departments and university partners.
She serves as the Study Abroad Office representative on the Polytechnic campus, working with key faculty members and advisors on program development as well as advising students on their study abroad options. Tardif came to ASU from Pepperdine University, where she served for almost two years in their International Programs Office as marketing coordinator. She worked closely with marketing efforts related to the six academic year programs offered and assisted two faculty-led programs to South Africa and Swaziland. Tardif has a degree in international studies and political science from Pepperdine University and is currently completing her master’s in finance at ASU. She studied in Florence, Italy for her sophomore year in college, which led her to work in the field of international education. Tardif currently coordinates all of ASU’s study abroad programs in Spain, Italy and Portugal. |
Debbie Tibbs-Collins
Senior Program Coordinator
Study Abroad Office  Tibbs-Collins works with Study Abroad Office management and colleagues to develop, promote and administer ASU’s diverse menu of study abroad programs, in coordination with academic departments and university partners.
She received her first taste of international travel during high school when she traveled in her sophomore year to Spain, Italy and Africa. She also traveled throughout Canada with her parents on vacations. As a result, she decided to work in the area of study abroad, ensuring that her students have a positive experience abroad. Tibbs-Collins joined ASU in 1997, first working in the Undergraduate Admissions Office, then the W. P. Carey Development Office and moving to the Study Abroad Office in February 2004. She graduated from University of Delaware with a bachelor’s degree in human resources and a minor in management. She has extensive experience working with students, faculty and administrators. In her spare time she relaxes by listening to gospel and jazz music, playing video games, going to the movies with her family and spending time at her church. Tibbs-Collins currently coordinates all of ASU’s study abroad programs in Albania, Armenia, Bosnia, Botswana, Czech Republic, Ghana, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Senegal, South Africa and Tajikistan. | Kanit Vongspradit
International Student Services Assistant
International Students & Scholars Office  Vongspradit has worked with international students at ASU since September 2008. In her role as international student services assistant, she is responsible for the front office management, general immigration advising and processing visa related documentation.
She first came to ASU from Thailand, as an international student in graphic information technology. She completed her master of science of technology from ASU in 2005. She also holds a bachelor of arts in communication arts from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Vongspradit is interested in people from different cultures and would love to communicate with or assist them. As a student, she was a vice president of the International Student Club at ASU's Polytechnic campus. |
