Roger Reyes
Intercultural and International Communication (MA)
Degrees
American University - School of International Service • Master of Arts, Intercultural and International Communication
Georgetown University - Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service • Bachelor of Science in Foreign Science, Regional and Comparative Studies • Certificate in International Development
Miami Dade College - The Dual Language Program of The Honors College • Associate in Arts, International Relations
Favorite Spot on Campus
The Atrium
Bio
Born in Miami and raised in the neighborhood of East Little Havana, Roger Rolando Reyes is the son of Honduran immigrants to the United States. He majored in International Relations at The Dual Language Program of The Honors College at Miami Dade College and in Regional and Comparative Studies—focusing on Latin America and Asia—at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. After graduating from Georgetown, he worked as a seasonal Elections Support Specialist with the Miami-Dade County Elections Department for the Training, Community Outreach, and Government Affairs divisions and as a Front Desk Supervisor at a small boutique hotel before moving to Asia
In moving to Jeju City, South Korea, on February 25, 2015, Roger found friends, food, and foreign affairs. He worked as a native English assistant teacher with the English Program in Korea (EPIK) for four years. He worked at Daejeong Middle School and Andeok Middle School, where he worked on complementing course competencies in English with the use of American media. After two years as a middle school teacher, he transferred to the Jeju Foreign Language High School, where he worked for two years and successfully mentored five rising seniors applying to the College of International Relations at Ritsumeikan University in Japan.
After leaving EPIK, he became an English language instructor for the Jeju International Education Institute (JIEI). He first worked at the Seogwipo Foreign Language Education Center and, after two years, relocated to the Jeju Foreign Language Learning Center, the main center. For four years, Roger taught conversational English to elementary, middle, and high school students and adults in class and online. He contributed to the English language outreach and cultural programs at various rural elementary and middle schools to attenuate English language inequity in public schools. He also served as faculty adviser to print media clubs at the Jeju Jungang Girls' High School and Jeju Dong Middle School and facilitated a student-led literacy initiative by the Language and Culture Education Support Office of JIEI.
Currently, Roger is majoring in Intercultural and International Communication with a focus on cultural and public diplomacy. He is the Graduate Research Assistant for the AU Korea in Global Affairs Scholars Program; a Peace, Human Rights, and Cultural Relations (PHRCR) Senator for the SIS Graduate Student Council; and the Director of Operations for the Association of Latino Career Enhancement (ALCE).
