Alumni Highlights
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Mikayla Jarrat, French, BBA, International Business, 2020
Mikayla plans on continuing her French language skills while working for global business firms.
Angel Bista, Japanese and Arabic, BA International Relations, 2020
Angel moved to Ulsan, South Korea, where she is currently working as an English teacher. She is actively developing strategies for language-acquisition that resemble those utilized by her previous instructors, and implementing them in her own classroom.
Eric Brink, Spanish & Chinese, BA Spanish, 2020
During his time at GVSU he was a recipient of the Critical Language Scholarship, an intensive overseas program that allowed him to study a year's worth of Chinese curriculum in just eight weeks.
Rick Rossow, Russian, BA Russian Studies
Richard Rossow (Rick) is a senior adviser and holds the Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a prominent think tank in Washington, DC.
Caitlin Smith, Spanish, BA Secondary Education & Spanish, 2014
Caitlin is a proponent of language learning because it introduces people to different cultures and beliefs. The ability to communicate with millions more people around the world is something she would never give up.
Courtney Daman, Spanish, BS Biomedical Sciences, 2015
Currently, she is a traveling physical therapist and recently had a 3-month contract in Yuma, Arizona where she had the opportunity to treat Spanish-speaking patients in a completely Spanish-speaking clinic.
Kassie O'Brien, Spanish, BA Spanish and International Relations, 2016
Kassie is a Spanish Medical Interpreter in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She currently works with Voices for Health, interpreting for patients with limited English proficiency throughout the city's hospitals and clinics.
Hector Belmont, Spanish, BA Spanish, 2016
Hector is currently employed at Grace Christian University in Wyoming, MI as an Undergraduate Enrollment Advisor. He regularly uses his degree from GVSU to connect with students and families whose native language is Spanish.
Travis Brubaker, German, BA International Relations, 2018
"Learning German opened up many new doors for me, and encouraged me to learn other languages as well."
Ryan Grabijas, German, BA & BS German & Hospitality and Tourism Management, 2016
After graduating in April 2016, Ryan spent the summer working as a German language instructor at Concordia Language Villages in Bemidji, Minnesota, and then as a hiking guide in the Canadian Rockies for German-speaking tourists.