Dr. Coles is a curricular innovator whose pedagogy centers experimentation, inquiry, societal relevance, and decentering oneself. She has long championed cultural immersion, interdisciplinarity and experiential learning, and close faculty-student mentorship. As a professor, she taught courses at the intersection of politics, anthropology, and international studies as well as qualitative research methodologies.  Recognized for innovative classroom instruction based on fieldwork-oriented exercises rooted in inquiry, she also spent two years directing an Austria-based study abroad semester, shifting its focus to contemporary issues in Europe and designing a beloved experiential excursion through parts of the former Yugoslavia.

Dr. Coles was the associate provost of institutional effectiveness at the University of Redlands prior to joining ����APP.  She designed and led their reaccreditation process, advised faculty and administrators on assessment models most likely to be meaningful, and helped improve data gathering and collection efforts. She is a strong advocate for structure and infrastructure that allow missions to thrive in daily practice.

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Dr. Sapra maintains an active scholarship record authoring and co-authoring diverse forms of scholarship, including edited books, peer-reviewed journal articles, and other community-based publications. Her most recent publication is a co-authored, open-access resource guide titled the “AHLAN Manual” which offers step-by-step to-do lists for strengthening and expanding campus-community capacity for refugee welcome and inclusion.

Before starting graduate school in the United States, Dr. Sapra worked at a non-governmental labor rights organization in New Delhi doing research and advocacy on the impact trade liberalization had on India’s informal workers. She has also worked with several community organizations in the United States and currently serves as a research fellow for Every Campus a Refuge, an organization that supports and mobilizes U.S. colleges and universities to host refugees on campus grounds and assists them in their resettlement.

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Dr. Cappelli has published one book and several scientific articles in indexed international journals. He has taught academic seminars regarding innovations in the cereal production chain at the University of Florence and taught the module “food processing equipment” for the master’s degree course in food sciences for innovation and authenticity at the Free University of Bolzano. He teaches ITS courses (two-year courses for high technical specialization post-high school diploma) including “agricultural and agro-industrial technologies,” “configuration of the quality control system in agro-food production,” and “processes and technologies for agro-food transformations.” He is also an official extra virgin olive oil sommelier with inclusion in the national list of technicians and experts of virgin and extra virgin olive oils in the Tuscany region. As of June 2023, he is an associate professor at San Raffaele University.

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Ebony is originally from Australia and holds an MA in gender studies from Utrecht University, and an MA in development studies, specializing in peace and conflict studies, from the International Institute of Social Studies in the Hague. Prior to joining ����APP, Ebony worked across grassroots education, NGOs, and state government on gender equality initiatives focusing on sexual reproductive health and rights, prevention and response to gender-based/domestic violence, and menstrual equity.

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Dr. Pulecio is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in Latin American literature and culture. His work juxtaposes law and literature to inquire how oppressed subjects have been depicted and linguistically constructed throughout several cultural devices, mostly literature and film.

A seasoned professor both in Colombia and the U.S. and a Colombian native, Dr. Pulecio has taught in fields such as law, political philosophy, human rights, Spanish at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels, Spanish for the professions, and Hispanic literature. Since 2008, Dr. Pulecio has been researching cultural activism carried out by women, LGBTQ+ people, and racialized minorities aimed at contributing to the peace process.

In 2023, he was awarded the Excellence in Teaching award from the University of New Hampshire’s College of Liberal Arts where he also serves as teaching and pedagogy leader for the Global Racial and Social Inequality Lab (GRSIL). His work has been featured in renowned journals encompassing peer-reviewed papers, translations, prologues, special editions, and book and film reviews.

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For the past three decades, Meyrav has been training kindergarten and primary school teachers in China, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Nepal, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom. She has been developing curricula that cater to the heritage of communities around the world by interweaving transformative and experiential learning with culture and spirituality. Her work brings together the Waldorf methodology, progressive education approaches, and the traditions of specific communities to help them transition to the 21st century without losing their spiritual heritage and valuable traditional knowledge. For example, Meyrav designed a Buddhist curriculum for kindergarten through class 8 for children from the high Himalayas, the Tibetan community in exile, and other Buddhist communities.

Meyrav developed the Abiding Heart Education approach for kindergarten through class 12. This education approach, which includes curriculum design and content and teacher education courses, can be used by Buddhist and non-Buddhist communities around the world. Meyrav is the director of Abiding Heart Education, which has bases in the United States, Scotland, and Nepal where this new educational approach and curriculum is offered to regional and international students. At Abiding Heart, she lectures on the kindergarten and primary teacher education courses, human development, learning theories and methodologies, curriculum studies, contemplative parenting, and personal development study retreats.

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Phoenix works with both domestic and international students in Kathmandu to help build their confidence for research. As an activist-researcher, she supports the decolonization of research methodology, arguing that everyone has unique abilities to ask questions and find their own answers.

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Throughout her educational experience and international education career, Ebony’s work has been featured in many capacities and has been noted for using innovative intercultural, storytelling, and self-discovery practices to support learning across cultures and to celebrate the spectrum of human experiences and collective narratives.

Ebony’s journey to international education began during her undergraduate career when she participated in an international internship program with the U.S. Department of Defense. Following this internship, she spent many years supporting military families, children, and youth in various capacities throughout the world.

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Dr. Palmer is a biologist with a passion for understanding how organisms survive in challenging and changing environments. She has been fortunate to work in some amazing ecosystems including the neotropics as a researcher at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and as a field researcher in the high desert working on the impact of climate change on alpine plants, including the ancient bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California. As a university professor with 10 years of experience teaching, Dr. Palmer moved to Iceland as a Fulbright/NSF Arctic Research Scholar, working with the Iceland Forest Service to study mycorrhizal fungal communities in subarctic regions to help in establishing new forests. She is passionate about the outdoors, with a particular soft spot for trees, and is often found somewhere on the side of a mountain on an off-trail running adventure. She studied abroad on an environmental conservation field program in college and found it to be one of the most transformative and empowering experience.

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Wanting a broader understanding of the student experience, she transitioned to admissions and began focusing on the program exploration and onboarding process, first at The College of Idaho and then at Colorado State University. She enjoys learning about the goals, motivations, and intentions of students to help them identify the right educational path. Ashley holds dual bachelor’s degrees in marketing and communications from the University of Montana and an MEd from Boise State University.

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Originally from the United States, Dr. Spencer has studied, lived, and worked on three continents. Her passion for education and traveling began as an ESL teacher in South Korea. From there, she went on to study in London and Edinburgh where she lived for nearly a decade. She has most recently lived and worked as a professor in South Korea where she was involved in encouraging expats to vote from abroad.

After becoming certified as a teacher in the state of Florida, Dr. Spencer earned her PhD from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Science. She focused on transnational activism and human rights campaigns in the South Asian diaspora. She spent four years as a visiting professor of global studies in South Korea, teaching interdisciplinary courses on topics such as international conflict, humanitarianism, and development. Her research was focused on the politicization of feminism in political discourse and obstacles to multiculturalism in South Korea. She joins ����APP as a visiting faculty of research methods and human rights courses.

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