Keerti Hasija Kauffman, Associate Director
Keerti Hasija Kauffman specializes in intercultural competency, education and nation building, and institutional development for diverse learners. Keerti has several years experience in global education development and in working to design curricula for integrative and diverse learning environments. Keerti has consulted with UNICEF programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and worked with the World Affairs Councils of America system and at the Southern Center for International Studies where she served as the primary consultant for the nationally distributed South Asia in Transition program. She has developed multi-media educational materials, written curricula for secondary and higher education, and trained educators in several U.S. states to teach about South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Keerti has coordinated more than 200 public education programs on international affairs, and has spent the last ten years studying South Asian regional development. Keerti holds a Masters degree in International Education from American University in Washington D.C. and Bachelors degrees in Journalism and Political Science from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA. She has traveled throughout India extensively over 25 years, speaks fluent Hindi, and conversational Urdu and Punjabi.