معرفی
Kelly Pengelly serves as a First Year Advisor and AUx Instructor at American University, leveraging over 30 years of international higher education and cross-cultural student development experience. She holds an M.A. in Higher Education and Student Development from Taylor University.
Education
- M.A. in Higher Education and Student Development, Taylor University
Research and Professional Focus
Ms. Pengelly specializes in developing intercultural competence frameworks, student leadership cultivation, and first-year mentoring systems. Her expertise spans residence life programming, international student orientation, global exchange initiatives, and service learning partnerships. Her cross-cultural leadership experience includes designing living-and-learning programs for university students in the US and Costa Rica, alongside international boarding students worldwide.
Professional Engagements
- Certified IDI (Intercultural Development Inventory) Qualified Administrator
- Strategic advisor for German Marshall Fund’s Department of Congressional Affairs
- Consultant for Old Dominion University’s President’s Cabinet
- Advisor to UNC-Chapel Hill’s Transatlantic Masters Program
- Senior Strategy Advisor for World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence non-profit launch
- Committee member for The American Council on Education diversity initiatives
- Contributor to Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security programs
