Meet the FIE Staff
Julie Andreshak-Behrman
Director of Experiential Education
Experiential Education Team
Julie is responsible for FIE’s internship and service-learning programs, developing and assuring quality for both the academic and administrative sides of their delivery. Her current research and development interests include the educator-site relationship, effective online course delivery and the transition from university to work.
She has been involved in international education for over fifteen years, first as a student, and then as administrator, researcher and teacher. Her experience abroad includes study in France and teaching in Poland. She served as a teacher-trainer in the US Peace Corps in Morocco prior to obtaining her PhD in Comparative and International Education at the University of Minnesota. Julie’s BA degree is in International Relations and her MS in Curriculum & Instruction, ESL; both degrees are from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Julie is also a certified French and ESL teacher.
Since relocating to London in 2001, Julie has worked as a research fellow in widening participation and as a program director and instructor for other study abroad and internship programs.