Summer 2025 Conference
Location: World Strides, 701 E Water St, Charlottesville, VA 22902
Date: Monday, July 14, 2025
Registration Deadline: Friday, June 27, 2025
Space is limited. Registration closes on July 4, 2025.
Hotel information: Home2 Suite by Hilton Charlottesville Downtown. 201 Monticello Ave, Charlottesville, VA 22902. Group Rate Link. (It will automatically populate two nights).
Virginia International Educators (VIE) is excited for its first in-person conference since 2019!
Join us for a day of learning, connection, and engagement based on the theme Strengthening Community in Times of Change. Much has changed since the last time we were together in-person, so the focus of our time together will be a little different than conferences past. Rather than a series of sessions proposed by members, this conference will challenge attendees to consider the current state of the field, to contemplate how international educators can best respond to the challenges of the day, to collaborate on proposed solutions, to bolster our each other for future success, and to engage with other professionals in the field.
To that end, we’re excited to be joined by great colleagues who will share their wisdom and expertise as they spur us in our thinking and collaboration:
- Stacey Bustillos, Associate Director, International Students & Outreach, Northern Virginia Community College
- Caroline Donovan White, Senior Director, Education Abroad Services & Volunteer Engagement, NAFSA: Association of International Educators
- Kelly Holland, Vice President of Strategic Communication & Engagement, AIFS Abroad
- Crystal Malik, Director, Immigration Practice Group, McCandlish Holton
- Clare Overmann, Chief Executive Officer, Association of International Education Administrators
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Speaker Biographies
Stacey Bustillos serves as the Associate Director for the Office of International Student Services at Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) where she oversees international recruitment, admissions and advising. Stacey has been with NOVA since 2011 serving in a variety of international education capacities and has previously worked with several international organizations in Washington DC where she administered academic and cultural exchange programs for students and scholars from around the world including Fulbright. She serves on the Study Virginia board and is a member of the Virginia/D.C. District Export Council. Stacey holds a BA in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs from Miami University of Ohio, a MA in International Education from George Washington University and is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Education with Penn State University. She is an Ohio native but has called northern Virginia home where she and her husband live with their two sons.
Caroline Donovan White, MA, is the Senior Director for Education Abroad Services and Volunteer Engagement at NAFSA: Association of International Educators. At NAFSA, Caroline provides strategic staff leadership for professional development programs and services on education abroad topics and manages the NAFSA International Education Awards. Caroline serves as the staff partner to the Education Abroad Knowledge Community, the Leadership Development Committee, the Member Engagement Committee, and the Member Interest Groups.
Caroline has more than 25 years of experience in managing international education programs. Prior to joining NAFSA in 2012, Caroline worked at The George Washington University for 13 years, during which time she managed faculty-led study abroad, international exchanges and partnerships, distance learning, and summer programs. From 2004-2014, she was a professorial lecturer for the international education MA program at the GW Graduate School of Education and Human Development, teaching courses on managing international programs. In the 1990s Caroline worked at the Institute of International Education (IIE) and Delphi International on projects sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency and the U.S. Agency for International Development. She earned her degrees from GW and American University and studied abroad in Europe, East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
Crystal M. Malik is a Director in the Immigration Practice Group. Crystal assists clients with a wide variety of immigration processes including employment, humanitarian and family-based immigrant petitions, complex naturalization, derivative citizenship, and non-immigrant employment-based immigration processes (with emphasis on E, H, L, O, and P visas).
She counsels clients regarding employment regulations including the training plan requirement for STEM OPT extensions for international students and I-9 for all employees. She has experience with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), VAWA self-petitions, U-visas, humanitarian reinstatement and waivers of inadmissibility. She provides advice regarding the immigration consequences of criminal convictions and has experience with post-conviction relief petitions. She regularly helps clients troubleshoot a variety of stalled immigration status-related state-based application processes including SAVE verifications for driver’s licenses and Social Security applications and has experience navigating motor vehicles rules, regulations and application processes all over the country.
Crystal’s interest in immigration law began while sponsoring her husband’s U.S. immigrant petition, an experience that motivated her choice of immigration law as a career. During law school, she was a Law Clerk with the Immigration Practice Group at McCandlish Holton. She previously worked with the Harry L. Carrico Center for Pro Bono Service at the University of Richmond School of Law to assist clients of the organization’s Immigration, No Fault Divorce and Wills for Seniors projects and served on the Trial Advocacy Board and as a Law School Admissions Representative. While earning her undergraduate and graduate degrees Crystal worked as a Paramedic and after graduate school as a Spanish teacher.
Clare Overmann is a longstanding international education leader who recently joined AIEA as its Chief Executive Officer following two decades working across sectors and cultures. Most recently, as a senior leader at the Institute of International Education (IIE), Clare led the organization’s global strategic engagement with higher education institutions, governments, corporations, and foundations. Her extensive tenure at IIE included oversight of IIE’s membership associations, Centers of Excellence, major U.S. government-funded programs, and corporate external affairs. An expert on academic partnerships, Clare led the growth and transformation of IIE’s Center for International Partnerships and expanded its flagship International Academic Partnership Program to more than 15 countries. She served as the inaugural Executive Director of the National Academy for International Education and has collaborated with hundreds of colleagues around the world on publications, trainings, and convenings. A graduate of Georgetown University and New York University, Clare serves on boards at NYU and in her hometown in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Kelly Holland is the Vice President for Strategic Communications & Engagement at AIFS Abroad. She has worked in higher education since 2007 and previously held roles with Towson University, Eastern Illinois University, and Lehigh University. She also taught abroad with the Spanish Ministry of Education in Andalucia, Spain, and has led multiple study abroad programs with university students. Kelly holds a BA in International Business Management from Moravian College and a M.Ed. in Comparative and International Education from Lehigh University. Kelly is a certified Gallup CliftonStrengths coach and aims to apply the positive psychology approach throughout her work, and as a frequent presenter about mental health and wellbeing in the international education profession. She resides in Maryland and has been a proud member of Region VIII since 2013.
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