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Kathy Spillman is Associate Director of the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and is responsible for developing and implementing programs, activities and outreach on Middle East issues and languages with faculty, students and the larger community.  Prior to this, she was a Fulbright scholar in Prague, where she taught at Charles University and trained Czech NGOs. Kathy also worked as a civic educator and producer for a talk-show on C-SPAN in the 1990s, designing international education programs for high school teachers and students from around the country.  She has also served as a consultant and trainer in NGO development and management in Macedonia, Ukraine and Armenia, and was an election monitor in Serbia, Croatia, and Azerbaijan for the Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, OSCE. She received her MA in international relations and Arabic from Georgetown University, and studied Arabic and comparative Arab politics in Tunisia, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.