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Anna Katrina Davey, Founder of AIE |
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A dual citizen of Italy and the USA, Anna Katrina is founder of Across Cultures as well as Austin International Experience (AIE). Across Cultures is a cultural competency training company helping people, corporations and organizations work successfully with foreign counterparts and prepare for assignments abroad. AIE is an Across Cultures project promoting the richness of global culture by harnessing the strength of our local resources and creating a new, conscious Austin international scene. Its main feature is Austin’s first ever Multicultural Events Calendar, which can be found on the AIE website.
Anna Katrina has extensive international living and work experience on three continents, has traveled over 40 countries, and is fluent in Italian, German and English. She has also studied Vietnamese and Spanish, as well as Latin and Ancient Greek.
Born and raised in Trieste, Italy, Anna Katrina earned a Master’s degree in Geography, Ethnology and European Cultural Studies, from Albert-Ludwigs Universität in Freiburg, Germany. She received further professional training in Intercultural Communication from InWEnt, the German government’s organization for human resources development, further training and dialogue.
Anna Katrina has successfully worked in the field of international cooperation as Vice President of The International Partnership of Greater Austin, for the International Bureau of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as well as for the German Development Service (DED) of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in Bonn, Germany. She has also worked as an intercultural advisor for the DED in Vietnam where she created a first-time intercultural training for Vietnamese counterparts of German international cooperation.
In her free time Anna Katrina enjoys the outdoors, practices yoga and hones her soccer skills whenever she gets the chance. An avid salsa dancer, she has also been spotted at several Bollywood flash mobs.
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