Biography: Hope Kroll (she/her) is the Student Success Coordinator in the Office for Education Abroad and works on data analysis and reporting, including student program evaluations. Hope manages education abroad programs for the Honors College, Lyman Briggs College, and the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities. Additionally, she maintains the education abroad pre-departure orientation course in D2L, Spartans Abroad, and serves as the office liaison to Institutional Research, the Transfer Student Success Center (TSSC), and Spartan First-gen Leadership & Innovation (FLI). She holds a BA in Political Science from MSU and brings nearly seven years of experience in international program management at the collegiate level. In her free time, you will find Hope walking her dog, reading, and traveling.

Biography: Benjamin Ladd is a Program Coordinator who works with programs in the Eli Broad College of Business, James Madison College, College of Human Medicine, and College of Veterinary Medicine. Ben serves as the office liaison with Undergraduate Research and helps oversee the Research Abroad Scholarship. Prior to joining the Office for Education Abroad, Ben worked for 25 years as a high school history teacher, which gave him the opportunity to organize and lead experiential learning trips to several countries in Europe and Latin America. He studied abroad in Italy through a National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute and participated in a program in Israel and Palestine on relations between Arabs and Israelis. Ben holds a BA in History from Cornell University, an MA in History from the University of Colorado, and an MS in Global Studies and International Relations from Northeastern University. His interests include running half marathons, studying foreign languages, reading, and spending time with his family.