Kate Meenan-Waugh has enjoyed nearly 40 years working in education as a teacher and administrator, specializing in global history and the creation of programs to expand global education. Her experience as a year-long exchange student in high school affirmed to her the value of experiential education as a means of personal growth and intellectual and cultural expansion. She began working as an ASSIST volunteer in 2001 at Washington International School, where she was the ASSIST school representative. In recent years, she has interviewed and evaluated ASSIST candidates, worked at the annual orientation for in-coming scholars in August, conducted school and host family visits and, as chair of the Washington DC chapter of ASSIST, organized events for area scholars and supporters. She is a graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and did extensive graduate work in international counseling and education at New York University.