Graduate Student
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Lina Mora Oviedo is an M.A. student in Intercultural Communication at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). She is an international student from Colombia and a Graduate assistant at the Center for Global Engagement at UMBC. In her home country, Lina completed a B.A. in Education and English language and worked as an English teacher in public and private institutions in Bogotá. In 2018, she was granted a PILA scholarship to study in Guadalajara, Mexico. From there came her interest in intercultural communication as she had the opportunity to interact with students from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Her research interests include the experiences of international students in the U.S. and the application of intercultural training initiatives in the international education field.