Meet Our Staff
Ramona Kirsch, International Programs Director (she/her)
Email: KirschRR@hollins.edu
Phone: 540-362-6214
Office: The Green, Wyndham Robertson Library
Ramona Kirsch has over 20 years of higher education experience focusing on international programming in a variety of colleges and universities across the country and abroad.
Kirsch is a first generation American, having grown up in an immigrant household. She has lived abroad and traveled, studied and worked in over 40 countries. She has also led educational delegations and presented papers at international conferences around the world. Kirsch has received three different Fulbright awards (two to Austria and one to India). She has a Doctor of Education degree focusing on educational leadership and management, in addition to an M.A. in history and a B.A. degree in letters: history, philosophy, literature and languages.
Kirsch is an avid tennis/pickleball player and life-long yoga practitioner.
Sofia Cervantes
Email: cervantessv@hollins.eduOffice: The Green, Wyndham Robertson Library
Sofia traveled all the way from the West Coast to Hollins University. She loves talking and getting to know new people and she sees traveling abroad as a unique way to do that as well as just a thrilling experience. Sofia is glad to support those who want to see new things in their life. She believes it's important to open your mind and that the lessons you learn in other settings may help you later on in the future!
Vanna Schickling
Email: cervantessv@hollins.eduOffice: The Green, Wyndham Robertson Library
Vanna was born in Bedford, VA and raised in Roanoke. She is a passionate artist and studio arts major, and has enjoyed traveling previously to visit museums and galleries in new places. Vanna hopes to eventually study abroad in Florence, and to continue traveling throughout her life. She appreciates that studying abroad can be enlightening and useful to those in any field.