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Center for Study Away
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Every semester, the Center for Study Away Peer Leaders offer their perspectives from their study away experience in order to support their peers, through leadership and facilitation of both study away returnee and study away pre-departure events. Learn more about this semester’s Study Away Peer Leaders below, feel free to reach out to them with questions about their experiences, and say hello to them around campus at various Study Away events.

We are no longer accepting applications for Spring 2025 Peer Leaders. Keep an eye out for Fall 2025 hiring in the late spring/summer!

Spring 2025 Peer Leaders

Ava Rao
Study away program: DIS: Study Abroad in Scandinavia (Stockholm, Sweden)
Majors/Minors/Concentrations: Biology/Chemistry/Community and Global Health
Ask me about these topics & study away: Study away as a premed student, Student with medical needs while abroad, Student of color
Carling McQuinn
Study away program: IES Abroad: French Language Immersion & Area Studies (Nantes, France)
Majors/Minors/Concentrations: English, Economics/French
Ask me about these topics & study away: Language-Immersion program (when you only sort-of know the language), Living with a host family, Full academic course load abroad, Navigating the European healthcare system, Travel anxiety 
Leyden Streed
Study away program: IFSA: Universidad de La Habana (Havana, Cuba)
Majors/Minors/Concentrations: English/Sociology/Spanish
Ask me about these topics & study away: Experience as a woman, LGBTQIA+ student, Multiracial student, Direct enroll in a second language, Scholarship options, Homestay experience
Ella Short
Study away program: SIT Chile: Public Health, Traditional Medicine and Community Empowerment (Arica, Chile)
Majors/Minors/Concentrations: Biology/Chemistry/Spanish/Biochemistry
Ask me about these topics & study away: Student athlete, Intern abroad, Language immersion, Living with a host family
Tara Weber
Study away program: SIT India: Public Health, Gender, and Sexuality (New Delhi, India)
Majors/Minors/Concentrations: Asian Studies/American Studies
Ask me about these topics & study away: LGBTQIA+ student, Research abroad, Living with a host family
Julia Ross
Study away program: Direct Enroll, National University of Ireland Maynooth (Maynooth, Ireland)
Majors/Minors/Concentrations: Statistics, Human Rights and Humanitarianism, Political Science
Ask me about these topics & study away: Direct enroll, Large university, Living alone, Budgeting abroad/ financial anxiety, changing your mind about study away
Reach me at: jross5@macalester.edu
Audrey Milk
Study Away Program: Direct Enroll: National University of Ireland Maynooth (Maynooth, Ireland)
Major/Minor/Concentration: History / Political Science / Human Rights & Humanitarianism
Ask me about these topics & study away: Direct Enroll, starting to learn a new language, connecting with domestic students, getting involved in campus activities, experience as a woman and disabled student, extra travel while abroad.
Katherine Manuel
Study Away Program: Direct Enroll: University of Sydney
Major/Minor/Concentration: Economics / Data Science
Ask me about these topics & study away: Direct Enroll, connecting with other international students, internship/job experience abroad, credit transfers, mental health
Angela Han
Study Away Program: ISEP Exchange: Hanyang University
Major/Minor/Concentration: Political Science / Economics
Ask me about these topics & study away: studying abroad in Northeast Asia, Language immersion, living alone, traveling tips, financial management, integration to local communities, finding right people and support.
Reach me at: ahan@macalester.edu