Grace Koepele ’20 is an arts and humanities major in RCAH with a focus in childhood and society, as well as a minor in Italian. This summer, the Ann Arbor native and Community High School alumna will be traveling to Italy to teach English through theatre, as well as working toward her own theatre-based English teaching certificate. She will be traveling to a new city in Italy every two weeks. During her trip, Grace will be blogging the entire experience, highlighting new techniques she has learned and the places she has visited along the way. During the summer of 2018, she studied Italian grammar and Italian Renaissance art history during a language-intense MSU education abroad program in Florence, Italy.
During her time at Michigan State University, Grace has kept up with her education and her interests in teaching English and the Italian language through RCAH’s Italian Integrated Learning Option, RCAH Ambassadors, the MSU Italian Club, and the East Lansing Public Library Social Justice Reading Group. Grace hopes to continue the arts-based youth work she is currently engaging in at MSU, and would like to combine her passion for the arts and languages to promote empowerment and agency in the children with whom she works.
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