Lilly has always straddled two different worlds since childhood visits to her grandparents in Riga. Extensively navigating each geopolitical environment led her to pursue culturally-grounded approaches to her degrees in Public Health at Ohio State and UNC. Since her longer-term return to Latvia last year, locals have used the word “bridge” to describe the way… Read More
Kiara
Originally from Washington, D.C., Kiara holds a BFA in Theatre Arts from DePaul University and an MA in Russian from Middlebury College. Kiara fell in love with the Caucasus region when she first traveled there in 2016 and has now lived in Tbilisi, Georgia for seven years. According to her, what’s best about living abroad… Read More
Carly
Carly achieved her B.A. in Communication from the University of Montana. She studied in Kyiv, Ukraine and Saint Petersburg, Russia in 2018/19. In 2021, she moved to Fergana, Uzbekistan where she served as a Fulbright ETA at a high school. She is currently completing her M.A. in International Education Management at the Middlebury Institute of… Read More
Taylor
As SRAS’s Program Manager in Bishkek, Taylor assists students and helps enhance and develop academic programming in Central Asia. She received her BA in Russian from Vanderbilt University and her MA in Slavic Languages and Literature from the University of Washington. She studied in St. Petersburg in 2016 and taught EFL in Vladimir, Russia for two years. Before joining SRAS, Taylor… Read More
Elena
A native of St. Petersburg, Elena holds a BAs in English Pedagogy and Humanities from St. Petersburg State Pedagogical University. As SRAS’ Administrative Specialist, Elena is responsible for providing overall support to our organization and its various programs and services. In her free time, Elena likes traveling and exploring new places, meeting with friends, and… Read More
Andrei
Andrei leads our archive research services, performing remote archive research and consultations for researchers around the globe. Andrei has MA degree from West Virginia University in Morgantown, USA. His personal interests are history and literature and research methods in social science. He has years of archival research experience.
Molly
Molly first went to Russia in 1991, landing in Moscow as Yeltsin was speaking on a tank outside the parliament. Molly graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Slavic and Eurasian Studies. She worked for MIR Corporation in 1994 and 1997, having great adventures riding the Trans-Siberian and searching Tuva… Read More
Lisa
Lisa, to the perplexity of her German-rooted North Dakotan family, graduated from Reed College with a BA in Russian Literature. After attending SRAS’s Translation Abroad Program (now part of our Home and Abroad Programs), she worked in Moscow for two years as an in-house translator and as the SRAS Moscow Student Coordinator. Lisa was then… Read More
Josh
Josh lived in Moscow from 2003-2022, from when he first arrived to study Russian with SRAS. He is now based in the Salt Lake area in the US. He holds an M.A. in Theatre and a B.A. in History from Idaho State University, where his masters thesis was written on the political economy of Soviet-era… Read More
Renee
Renee first visited the Soviet Union in 1990 to study at MGU after graduating from Boston University with a BS in Biomedical Engineering. After working at a technical translation company in Boston, she returned to Moscow in 1992 for permanent residence until 1998. During that time she worked in the Russian financial markets and eventually… Read More