May 2021

Kerollyne Cubeiro Evans

UCEAP extends thanks to Kerollyne Cubeiro Evans, whose last day with UCEAP was Friday, April 16. In addition to her position as the senior program administrator at the UCEAP study center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she has served as a local representative of the University of California Association in Brazil. Kerollyne was instrumental in getting the association officially established in the country. She was dedicated to helping students navigate their experience at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Kerollyne particularly enjoyed sharing Carioca culture with them, deriving much satisfaction in watching them get to know and fall in love with her home town. Kerollyne's amiable attitude and collaborative spirit made it a pleasure to work with her, even from afar, and she will be missed by her colleagues at the UCEAP Systemwide Office. We wish only the best for her in her next steps.

Scott McElhinney

Scott McElhinney will retire on July 1, after 37 years at UC Berkeley—the last 30 of which were spent as an advisor in the Berkeley Study Abroad office. He spent his junior year at UC Berkeley with UCEAP in Goettingen, Germany. Immediately after graduation, he volunteered for a year in a village in the Piedmont Alps of Italy. These two years abroad made such a powerful impact on him that he wanted to encourage other UC Berkeley students to undertake a similar adventure. Scott has thoroughly enjoyed working as a study abroad advisor and feels very lucky to have worked with such wonderful colleagues at UC Berkeley, the other campuses, UCEAP, and the study centers. All of us at Berkeley Study Abroad will miss Scott dearly and we wish him a wonderful retirement with our deepest gratitude for his innumerable contributions to the team. A virtual retirement celebration will be held Friday, May 7, from 2:30-3:30 pm.

Lily Rodriguez

Lily Rodriguez, Reciprocity program advisor, will be leaving UCEAP for a new position as the study abroad coordinator at California State University, Los Angeles. Lily has been a valued member of the team for more than three years. She has been integral in the testing and launch of the new Reciprocity student application system and developing Reciprocity’s social media presence and media resources. Lily’s ability to advise students with empathy and compassion has been an important asset to the Reciprocity team and our students. An alumna of UCEAP, Lily has been a strong booster for study abroad and promoting UCEAP to first-generation students. Over the past year, Lily has been working towards her master’s degree in Student Affairs from UC Los Angeles. Her last day at UCEAP will be May 7. We wish her well as she takes these next steps in her career in international education.

Barbara Tassielli

Assistant Director of Advising Barbara Tassielli of the Berkeley Study Abroad office has received an Excellence in Management award from the Berkeley Staff Assembly. This year's Excellence in Management Award program—with the theme Leading in Difficult times— honored exemplary managers who led their teams through a challenging year while demonstrating and encouraging resilience, inclusiveness, compassion, adaptiveness, work-life balance and well-being/morale.

Jing (Molly) Zou

Jing (Molly) Zou will be leaving her position as program manager at the Beijing Study Center, where she had worked since April 2014.

Over the years, Molly supported programs at Peking University, Beijing Normal University, and Tsinghua University. Molly said: “I love communicating with international students, so I have been enjoying working with UC students. The past six years was a great journey for me and I appreciate all the valuable experience I have learnt from UCEAP colleagues.”

We are extremely grateful for Molly’s dedication to students and UCEAP over the years.