Kirsten Rogers

Kirsten has been a global citizen since age nine, when she traveled through the island nations of the eastern Caribbean via sailboat - from the Bahamas south to Trinidad and Venezuela. The travel bug had bitten, leading to wanderlust and more passport stamps: Japan, the Philippines, Greece, South Korea, Thailand, Mexico, Sweden, and Spain. Most recently, Kirsten served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco as a Small Business Development volunteer working with women's weaving and textile cooperatives. Kirsten's Peace Corps service was integrated with her graduate studies at the University of Washington Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs where she obtained a Masters in Public Administration in 2010. As a Peace Corps Masters International student, Kirsten had a year of graduate studies before her Peace Corps service, followed by two years in the field, and finally, a final year of studies to write her master's thesis - a policy analysis on options to increasing educational exchange opportunities for students from the Middle East and North Africa. Kirsten speaks Moroccan Arabic and is now studying Modern Standard Arabic.