Penny Schouten

Marketing Director
 
Support/Responsibilities:

• Marketing and Communication
• Branding
• Social Networking Consulting
• Community Relationship Management

Education:

• MSC, E-Business, University of Westminster
• MPS, Humanistic Education/International Education, SUNY New Paltz
• BS, Broadcast Journalism, Syracuse University

Study Abroad Experience:

• Ealing College of Higher Education, London UK
• Strasberg School, London, UK
• Mumbai, India

Work Experience:

• SUNY New Paltz Center for International Programs, Marketing Coordinator-Study Abroad, NY.
• SUNY Rockland Community College, Acting Coordinator-Center for International Studies, NY.
• DisneyChannel-UK, Marketing Assistant, London, UK.
• SUNY Dutchess Community College, Instructor – Communications & Media Arts, Theatre, NY.

Affiliations:

• NAFSA: Region X Communications Manager 2009-2011; Presenter-NAFSA 2008; Presenter-Region X 2008; Presenter-Region XI 2008; Tech-SIG, Academy Mentor-2005; Local Arrangements Committee Co-Chair, Region X-2001.
• SUNY Council on International Education:  Steering Committee 4-year College Representative 2005-2008; Website Committee Chair 2006-2008, Marketing Committee Chair 2006-2008.
• Girl Scouts:  Life member, First Class.

Interests:  Social media & technology, equine sports, travel, theatre, fashion.

Inspire:   “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” - Paul Theroux

For Pre-departure Orientations:

• “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” - Clifton Fadiman
• "Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes - with all this taken away you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable but it is always invigorating." - Michael Crichton

For Re-entry Orientations:  “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” - Carlo Goldoni