Cohort 8
Gail Cornelius
EDUCATION • MBA
Marquette University • B.A. in Global Management UW-Milwaukee
ENROLLED • Cohort 8
LOCATION • Green Bay Wis.
Gail Cornelius is an educator, cultural navigator, and advocate for those in vulnerable situations. Gail earned her Bachelor of Global Studies, with a minor in Business Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Subsequently, she continued her studies at Marquette University where she gained a Master of Business Administration degree. Gail started her career in international education with a focus on creating innovative and accessible study abroad programs. Over two decades working in higher education, she gained a passion for influencing system level change to ensure that students from a range of backgrounds could benefit from cultural exchange and global learning. She developed an assessment tool to measure learning about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals connected to study abroad experiences. Additionally, Gail built international programs with consideration around host community impact, ensuring sustainability and potential for mutual learning. In 2022, she created a program which was awarded the U.S. State Department IDEAS Grant (Increase and Diversity Education Abroad for U.S. Students). As Gail interacted with people from around the world, her interest grew around issues related to migration patterns and immigration policies. This led to a career change with a new focus on refugee resettlement in Wisconsin. While continuing to learn about the challenges that refugees and migrants face, Gail works to address the structural inequities that lead to unsustainable systems and barriers for those impacted by global displacement.
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Ed.D. in Educational Sustainability
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