As Student Engagement Specialist, Thea Berthoff is responsible for ensuring student engagement by planning and implementing activities and creating a space where students feel connected and part of a community. She also develops programs that enhance the quality of the intercultural experience and language acquisition of CELOP students.<\/p>\n
Prior to joining CELOP, Thea worked in sales roles at technology startups, including in educational technology. Before that, she served as an AmeriCorps Teaching Fellow in Boston, as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Indonesia as a Teacher Trainer, and as a Teaching Assistant in France.<\/p>\n
Thea holds a Bachelor of Arts in French Literature and Language from the University of Pittsburgh. She earned a minor in Linguistics and has studied Spanish, Bahasa Indonesia, French, German, and Arabic (Modern Standard and Egyptian Arabic), in addition to her Dutch background.<\/p>\n
During college, Thea studied abroad in Egypt and France. She has also lived in Marseille, France and Bogor, Indonesia as part of her teaching experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10133,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1334\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/globalprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}