Jeremy Polio
Co-founder and Director
Jeremy earned his BA at Eastern Michigan University before studying Social Justice Education at the University of Michigan. After leaving Ann Arbor with an MA and loads of student debt he made his way to Onyati, Namibia via the United States Peace Corps, where he taught English, Physical Education, and Religious Studies for two years at Gosen CS. He currently teaches English at Shingu College in Seongnam, Korea.
To contact him, please e-mail [email protected].
Co-founder and Director
Jeremy earned his BA at Eastern Michigan University before studying Social Justice Education at the University of Michigan. After leaving Ann Arbor with an MA and loads of student debt he made his way to Onyati, Namibia via the United States Peace Corps, where he taught English, Physical Education, and Religious Studies for two years at Gosen CS. He currently teaches English at Shingu College in Seongnam, Korea.
To contact him, please e-mail [email protected].
Melanie Kwon Duch
Co-founder and Board Chair
Melanie received a BA in Public Policy from Brown University before moving to Korea in 2009. After helping to start GCE she earned her MBA at NYU to ensure our organization had proper pecuniary stewardship. She is currently a Senior Technical Product Manager at Facebook. That job title also describes her duties at GCE.
To contact her, please e-mail [email protected].
Co-founder and Board Chair
Melanie received a BA in Public Policy from Brown University before moving to Korea in 2009. After helping to start GCE she earned her MBA at NYU to ensure our organization had proper pecuniary stewardship. She is currently a Senior Technical Product Manager at Facebook. That job title also describes her duties at GCE.
To contact her, please e-mail [email protected].
Mia Wilson
Board Member
Mia Angelina has like 850 degrees, her two latest MAs from New York University in Gender Politics and Performance Studies, respectively. After graduating from James Madison University in 2006 she swam across the Atlantic to Namibia, where she spent two years physically recovering as an English and biology teacher in Walvis Bay. Mia is currently the Career Prep Program Manager and Systems Analyst at Grace Outreach in the Bronx, New York.
To contact her, please e-mail [email protected].
Board Member
Mia Angelina has like 850 degrees, her two latest MAs from New York University in Gender Politics and Performance Studies, respectively. After graduating from James Madison University in 2006 she swam across the Atlantic to Namibia, where she spent two years physically recovering as an English and biology teacher in Walvis Bay. Mia is currently the Career Prep Program Manager and Systems Analyst at Grace Outreach in the Bronx, New York.
To contact her, please e-mail [email protected].
Giulia Muraca-Muir
Board Member
Giules initially came to Namibia to help implement a pilot program by the University of Toronto focusing on HIV prevention but stayed because of the nice Namibian man she met and eventually married. Before Namibia she was the Director of Hemoglobal, an NGO providing medical treatment to Sri Lankan children with thalassemia. She is currently a Ph.D candidate in Public Heath at the University of British Columbia.
To contact her, please e-mail [email protected].
Board Member
Giules initially came to Namibia to help implement a pilot program by the University of Toronto focusing on HIV prevention but stayed because of the nice Namibian man she met and eventually married. Before Namibia she was the Director of Hemoglobal, an NGO providing medical treatment to Sri Lankan children with thalassemia. She is currently a Ph.D candidate in Public Heath at the University of British Columbia.
To contact her, please e-mail [email protected].
Kaitlyn Shepard
Board Member
Kaitlyn joined the US Peace Corps after graduating from Northern Iowa University and spent two years in Namibia as the small business advisor to the Onankali Mahangu Paper Making Cooperative in Onankali Village. She also spearheaded numerous projects done in conjunction with Gosen CS, among them the establishment of a solar light library so students could study at home after dark. Kaitlyn is currently in Raleigh, North Carolina working with the Travis Manion Foundation, an NGO supporting veterans and families of fallen service members.
To contact her, please e-mail [email protected].
Board Member
Kaitlyn joined the US Peace Corps after graduating from Northern Iowa University and spent two years in Namibia as the small business advisor to the Onankali Mahangu Paper Making Cooperative in Onankali Village. She also spearheaded numerous projects done in conjunction with Gosen CS, among them the establishment of a solar light library so students could study at home after dark. Kaitlyn is currently in Raleigh, North Carolina working with the Travis Manion Foundation, an NGO supporting veterans and families of fallen service members.
To contact her, please e-mail [email protected].
