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Our Team - Laura Sweet 

Laura Sweet

Director, International Faculty Development Seminars (IFDS)
1.207.553.4257
lsweet@ciee.org

Laura Sweet joined CIEE in 2006 and became director of IFDS in June 2013. Previously, she worked at a field-based environmental study abroad program in the Australian rainforest and helped develop and operate a faculty-led marine science and anthropology field school in the Solomon Islands. Laura holds a master’s degree in international education from the SIT Graduate Institute, a master’s degree in anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a bachelor’s degree in geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Laura’s own study and research abroad experiences included a semester at Lincoln University in New Zealand and a semester with SIT Pacific Islands Studies program in Samoa.

Our Team - Cait Vaughan 

Cait Vaughan

Senior Program Coordinator, International Faculty Development Seminars (IFDS)
1.207.553.4044
cvaughan@ciee.org

Cait Vaughan joined CIEE and the IFDS team in fall 2011. As senior coordinator, she is focused on pre-departure services for all IFDS. Cait first started working with faculty and international partners at the University of New Hampshire’s (UNH) Center for the Humanities, where she administered academic programs in ethnic studies and developed the institution’s first study abroad program in Africa. She received her bachelor’s degree in English literature and Africana and African American studies from UNH and has completed some graduate work in linguistics and teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL).

Our Team - Gina Campbell 

Gina Campbell

Program Coordinator, International Faculty Development Seminars (IFDS)
1.207.274.5658
acampbell@ciee.org

Gina Campbell came to CIEE in 2011 and joined the IFDS team in September 2013. As program coordinator, she is primarily responsible for outreach, answering inquiries, and reviewing applications. Gina completed her bachelor’s degree in English communications and anthropology at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. As an undergraduate, she studied abroad in London during her junior year and spent a summer volunteering at a children’s home in Kenya, returning after graduation to volunteer for six more months.