Staff Spotlight: Gail Stevenson, Director, VQEI
Gail is in charge of VQEI relations. Gail currently consults for the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative, was Director of International Programs at Champlain College, was the Director of the American Collegiate Consortium for East-West Exchange at Middlebury College for many years and has numerous significant academic achievements to her name. Gail holds a Ph.D in Economics from American University. She is fluent in Norwegian, has a command of the Russian language, communicates both in writing and speaking in French and some Spanish.
What is your personal philosophy?
Have faith and take the leap!
What is one thing you could not live without?
Coffee
What is the one thing you cannot resist?
Flattery
Where is your favorite place to be?
So many great places, but Vermont is high on the list – on my porch on a summer’s eve.
What is the weirdest job you have ever had?
I once ran an office in Russia for a few years. It was a great job, but this was during the time when there were constant “deficits†in Russia. On any given day there could be no electricity, no phones, no paper, no cheese – whatever. One day I and a staff of two calculated that our sole work product for the day was to send 7 faxes.
What has been the most important innovation you have witnessed in your lifetime?
Computer technology combined with satellites and GPS make possible almost all the communications innovations we take for granted today.
If you could do another job for just one day, what would it be?
I would like to be a jazz singer/pianist
How do you define success?
Accomplishing what you started out to accomplish and doing it well
What is the best book you have ever read?
Impossible to say, but one I do recommend is The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears. It is three intertwined stories that take place in Southern France – first at the time of the fall of the Roman Empire, second during the Black Death and third during WWII when this area was controlled by Vichy France.
Contact Gail:
(802) 863-3489 x203
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