2004 Spring Conference - Sarah Phillips Biography

Currently the Senior Program Coordinator for the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for undergraduate study abroad. This program is sponsored by the US Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and is administered by the Institute of International Education out of the Southern Regional Center in Houston, TX. Sarah has worked on the Gilman program for two and a half years and assists in all aspects of program administration. As an undergraduate she studied abroad on the School for International Training program in Yunnan, China and also spent three months serving as a volunteer English teacher at the Lijiang Ethnic Orphanage School in Lijiang, China. She received her bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies, Political Science and History from Minnesota State University, Moorhead.