Faculty Profile: Andrea Pietrzyk

Andrea Pietrzyk is the Assistant Director for Student & Scholar Engagement in the International Student & Scholar Services office at Vanderbilt University. She has been in her current role since 2018. Before she came to Vanderbilt University, she worked in the international programs offices at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, and at An-Najah National University in Nablus, Palestine. She earned a BA in International Studies and French from the University of Memphis, and an MA in International Policy Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey, California. Her first experience living abroad came during her undergraduate career, during which she studied in France for a semester. After completing her MA, she taught English in Lebanon and Palestine for several years. Her experiences abroad have given her perspective on the experience of living in another country, which informs much of the work that she does to support international students and scholars at Vanderbilt.