Staff
Araseli Valverde
Director of the Global Gap Year Fellowship
Araseli just joined the team as the Global Civic Engagement Coordinator. She is originally from Pinnacle, North Carolina, and a UNC alumna. She graduated from Carolina in 2020 with a double major in Global Studies and Romance Languages and a minor in Public Policy. During her time as a student,… Read More about Araseli Valverde. »
Interns
Amber Grant
Global Office Intern
Amber Grant is from Salem, Massachusetts and spent five years near Pinehurst, North Carolina before attending UNC. She took a gap year through the Global Gap Year Fellowship in 2021-2022. During her gap year, Amber traveled much of the Western United States. Amber volunteered on the Cheyenne River Reservation in… Read More about Amber Grant. »
Angela Seo
Global Office Intern
Angela is a junior from Greensboro, North Carolina. She took a gap year through the Global Gap Year Fellowship and Global Citizen Year in 2019 to 2020. During her gap year, she lived in Natabuela, Ecuador and interned at Fábrica Imbabura, a national museum and cultural complex in Atuntaqui. At… Read More about Angela Seo. »
Nancy Alvarez Lopez
Global Office Intern
Nancy Alvarez Lopez is from Raleigh, North Carolina. She took a gap year through the Global Gap Year Fellowship in 2021-2022. During her gap year, she traveled to Arizona and Spain. Nancy volunteered at an Exotic Animal Hospital located in Phoenix, AZ and she volunteered as a bilingual interpreter at… Read More about Nancy Alvarez Lopez. »