Judy Pehrson:  

I have worked in journalism, marketing/public relations and higher education in the U.S., New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan. I also taught journalism as a Fulbright Scholar at Nanjing University in China during the 1996-97 academic year. Later, I worked in Washington, D.C. as director of external relations for the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), the non-profit organization that administers the Fulbright Program on behalf of the U.S. State Department. Currently. I am "quasi-retired" and working part-time as director of a women's center at a small, private liberal arts college in Lancaster, PA. I am on a leave of absence from January-July (2008), however, and my husband, Mike, and I are in Hamilton, New Zealand along with 19 students from his college who are studying abroad here for six months. Mike is a physics professor and is teaching a course at the university. I never dreamed in my early life that I would have the opportunities to travel and live abroad that I have enjoyed. I have spent a total of 10 years living outside the U.S. and have also traveled extensively. Both my husband and I love to travel, as does my son, Ian, who just earned his PhD degree in intercultural psychology from the University of British Columbia in Vancouve...Expand for more