MEET YOUR ONSITE STAFF!

Madison Clark

CISabroad On Site Programs Coordinator: Rome and Paris

Email: mclark@orientation.cisabroad.com

Skype: madison.clark.cisabroad

Born and raised in Portland, Oregon Madison always had international students in and out of her home, making studying abroad seem like a normal part of the college experience. When she enrolled at Western Oregon University it seemed only natural to spend a year exploring a new country. Her first experience abroad was a year spent in San Jose, Costa Rica, with a couple months in Nicaragua. The travel bug officially bit and 2 years later after graduating with an International Studies degree with a minor in Spanish, she moved across the country to Boston, Massachusetts to work for CISabroad. This past year Madison has traveled all over the NorthEast as part of the University Relations team falling in love with her own country. But the bug is back, and she will be spending the summer with you as you explore Europe!

Madison will be present in Italy and in Paris and available to students for activities, emergencies, issues or concerns around your program, or just if you’re feeling out of place and need some support. All students will be formally introduced to her prior to the start of the program and she will maintain in contact with you throughout the program, to ensure that everything is going well.

Romina Marchionne

CISabroad Site Director: Rome and Perugia

Email: cisitaly@cisabroadonsite.com

Phone: 3496742118

Skype: romina marchionne

Romina is a native Roman, who graduated with a degree in International Communications at the University for Foreigners of Perugia in 2005. In the same year, she returned to Rome where she started working for the IES. In the following two years she decided to study International Relations and enrolled in the MA in International Affairs at the SIOI school in Rome. In 2007 Romina graduated in International Relations at the same University of Perugia and after completing the MA she undertook an internship at the Italian Development Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome. At the beginning of 2008, after completing the internship, Romina was offered a position to work as a Communication and Public Information Officer within the civilian component of the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Herat for the NATO mission in Afghanistan. Between 2008 and 2009 she accomplished two missions in Afghanistan. In 2009 she started working for the Italian Development Cooperation Office at the Italian Embassy in Beirut. In Lebanon she worked as a Communication and Public Information Officer and she was also in charge of the joint projects which were later carried out together with the Italian troops within the United Nations mission in Southern Lebanon. In the summer of 2010 Romina left Lebanon to work in Yemen, where she held the same office within the Italian Development Cooperation Department of Sana’s. In the spring of 2011, due to the serious and uncertain situation in Yemen, all the Italian Embassy staff was ordered to leave the country for security reasons. Because of the consequences of the Arab Spring in all Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, and in Northern Africa, Romina has decided to work in Rome and enjoy with her friends and family the beauty of the Eternal City.