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2010 Judges Panel

We have carefully selected a panel of judges from the international community. Each entry will be judged on the quality of the essay, how the selected media reflects their topic and the creativity of the project as a whole.

	Kimberly Van Cleave Michaels Kimberly Van Cleave Michaels is currently the Associate Director, Marketing, Seattle for Babson College (FastTrack Portland MBA). Kim has spent her career working within education and a large portion with families in global transition. Over the past 15 years, Kim has worked with international high school exchange students from the U.S. and abroad, administering several U.S. Department of State grants. She herself has studied and worked in Spain, England and Japan and has a B.A. in International Affairs and Spanish from Lafayette College and an M.A. in Intercultural Relations from the Intercultural Communications Institute/Antioch University. In 2007, Kim was a ghostwriter on the book, Adventures Abroad, published by Kaplan. She lives with her husband, two children and cat in Seattle, Washington.

	Jo Parfitt Jo Parfitt has published 26 non-fiction books, is a journalist, teacher, editor and publisher and mentors others to write and publish their books. She has lived in Dubai, Oman, Norway and is now based in The Hague, the Netherlands. She specializes in inspiring and empowering people to write about what they know as memoir, articles or books. Jo travels extensively, running workshops and speaking at international conferences and in 2010 was honored as a Trailblazer for her work with expat spouses at the Families in Global Transition conference. She is perhaps best known for her books: Career in Your Suitcase, Expat Entrepreneurs, Release the Book Within and Find Your Passion. Jo runs Summertime Publishing, her motto is 'sharing what I know to help others to grow’ and she loves teaching and nurturing new talent above all. Find out more at joparfitt.com and pick up a free report on The Seven Steps to Writing Life Story and 50 Steps to a Book in Your Hand.

	Alyson Rose-Wood JA former international white water raft guide, Alyson Rose-Wood is a 2009-2011 Presidential Management Fellow with the National Institutes of Health. She is currently on detail to the Office of Global Health Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services where she is assisting with the Haiti health relief effort. Alyson has a Master of Science in Global Health and Population with a concentration in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is interested in all things related to mosquitoes. The child of U.S. diplomats, Alyson grew up in Botswana, Ethiopia, Mali, and Honduras. She served in the Peace Corps in Morocco and has returned to Mali and Ethiopia to work professionally. Her interest in the Foreign Service Youth Foundation stems from her own background as a Third Culture Kid but also her time spent as the Globe Trotter's Program Director (2006-2007). She now serves on the Board of Directors of the Foreign Service Youth Foundation. Alyson credits her peripatetic upbringing with providing her with a sense of adventure (and restlessness) but also instilling in her, from a young age, a desire to serve and put her cross-cultural "know-how" to good use.

	Rosemary Whitcraft Rosemary Whitcraft is a long time resident of Thailand and has been active in selection, recruitment and fund raising for AFS Intercultural Programs Thailand for over 20 years. AFS Thailand sends 850 Thai students on one year cultural and educational high school year exchanges every year. In addition, it sponsors volunteer Thai teacher exchanges to 40 partner AFS countries and hosts foreign students for short programs in Thailand. She was co-editor of two editions of The Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand book, The King of Thailand in World Focus, published for His Majesty’s 60th and 80th birthday. She has been an English teacher for Thai college students, writer, researcher and author with the Thailand Museum Group and several business magazines. Rosemary served as UNHCH Resettlement officer for Unaccompanied Minors and conducted independent research for the recently published book, Wise Counsel: A History of Tilleke & Gibbins, Thailand’s Oldest Law Firm. Rosemary is a graduate of the University of Akron in Ohio. Her husband, Mark, along with their two sons and three teenage grandsons, live in Thailand.