Cultura y Comunidad; Director of Global Partnerships; Lecturer of World Languages and Cultures, Spanish
klinegkx@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Karina Kline-Gabel is the Director of Global Partnerships at JMU's Center for Global Engagement. She earned her M.A. in Spanish Literature from the University of Virginia and her B.A. in International Affairs and Modern Foreign Languages from James Madison University. Her current advocacy work focuses on building connections with the local community on a campus, local and state level. Her teaching focuses on cultural competency and creating spaces for JMU students to work with local agencies and civic engagement opportunities on and off campus.
Affiliation
Center for Global Engagement
Department of World Languages & Cultures
Madison Hispanic Faculty Caucus, Founder
Cultura y Comunidad, Coordinator
LAXC Coordinating Council
Achievements
Karina Kline-Gabel has started and nurtured the following programs:
- Trailer Park Gift Drives
- The Summer Leadership Institute
- Latino Film Festival of the Shenandoah Valley
- The Pen-Pal Project
- AMISTAD
- CHICAS Project
- Madison Hispanic Faculty Caucus
