CEA CAPA Education Abroad
2025 NAFSA Annual Conference

Learning Objectives:

• Craft a short and compelling story of why you decided to be an international educator, weave in identities and articulate the skills and value you bring to the field.
• Identify how to use your story to advocate for themselves or to support teammates.
• Develop connections with session attendees to build a strong support network.
• Create action plans for future engagement with newly formed stories and use your stories to continue collaboration around new ideas, best practices, and approaches to the field.

Parks & Recreation: Environmentalism and Poetry in Sydney  

Join graduate student Louis Aquino to explore topics of self-exploration, sustainability, and support during his custom program experience in Australia. Louis will share the realities of pursuing an undergraduate trimester abroad, highlight the sense of community fostered by a CEA CAPA study center, and emphasize his academic growth in Sydney: as both a researcher and a creative writer. Louis’s poetry collection, Parks and Recreation, is a testament to his daily writing practice while exploring natural sites across the continent. Don’t miss out on these timely themes of student environmental action, CEA CAPA's commitment to Sustainability, and the importance of intentional custom programs. 

My First Year Experience in London  

Join Rosa Marshall to examine the academic and professional value of First Year Experience (FYE) programming. Framing London as her classroom, Rosa will share student perspectives on the benefits to one’s first semester abroad: developmentally, culturally, and institutionally. Rosa’s presentation showcases the exceptional value behind a First Year Experience program and the ways CEA CAPA uniquely supports for first year students. From Abbey Road to Amherst, MA, engage with Rosa about her cohort experience, her current academic pursuits, and tiers of support. 

Studying, Interning, and Developing Professionally in Barcelona  

Join Veronica Broskovetz, a Political Science and Spanish double major, to better understand the student experience completing an internship while taking courses at our most populous CEA CAPA study center. Veronica will divulge details on CEA CAPA’s flagship Global Internship Course, required for all interns. Expand your understanding of a Study Center as more than a meeting place and classroom. The professional immersion from pre to post coupled with Veronica’s homestay experience promises valuable insights. Do not miss this highlight of CEA CAPA’s high impact models of student engagement and choice. 

From Chemistry to Culture: Interning Abroad, Scientific Knowledge, & Global Perspective in Florence 

Join Natasha Machera to unpack her study and intern experience as a Chemistry major interning at a winery in Florence. Natasha’s experience demonstrates that students need not limit their destination choice given their academic foci. Further your understanding on CEA CAPA internships as complimentary to student interest, career readiness, and academic requirements. Natasha’s anecdotes in social, artsy Florence through excursions and medical emergencies uplift CEA CAPA’s global preparedness and local intel. In celebration, Natasha will share how her internship in Florence propelled her acceptance to a fully funded graduate program for Biomedical and Health Sciences this Fall.  

Please join us at the CEA CAPA Education Abroad NAFSA Conference Reception at the Ultimate Sky Box at DiamondView Tower for a night of light appetizers, beverages, and engaging conversations with colleagues.

Register for the Reception below!