Treva Clark

Project Associate

School of Education
University of Pittsburgh

5701 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA

Education
Areas of Expertise
  • International Business

  • Comparative Education Policy

Professional Biography

Treva Clark is a PhD student in Social and Comparative Analysis in Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also a Graduate Student Assistant working closely with Dr. Michael Gunzenhauser as part of an on-going directed research team to secure survey and interview participants, conduct confidential interviews, transcribe interview data, and compile qualitative data results. In addition to her engagement at the Universiyt of Pittsburgh, Clark is an adjunct faculty at Elizabethtown College, where she teaches classes such as Global Negotiations, International Communications, and International Marketing Communications. She is also a part-time facilitator at the University's Center for Continuing Education and Distance Learning (CCEDL). Clark has been a Senior Consultant with Global Guidance, Inc. since 2002, where she has established a consulting firm focused on international development activities. She served as an Adjunct Faculty/Lecturer at York College of Pennsylvania between 2001 and 2007, where she taught classes such as International Business and Professional Selling and Marketing.

 

Clark has a variety of community activities and experiencces, such as participating in a 15-day service-learning project with the University of Pittsburgh Learning Integrated with Needed Construction and Service (LINCS) in Urubamba, Peru (2008). She has also participated in a Domestic Mission Service Project in St. Bernard Parish in Los Angelas (2007), and organized and particpated in an International Mission Service Project in Peru (2003-2006). Clark is currently an Adult Education Facilitator who develops and delivers curriculum designed for adult Christian education programs.

 

Clark is a member of several professional organizations and she has particiated in a number of professional conferences across the United States. She currently works at the Institute for International Studies in Education (IISE) on grants procurement. She has been a memebr of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) since 2008, and the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) since 2009. In addition to her professional memberships and affiliations, Clark has actively particpated in a number of conferences and workshops. She has served as a proposal reviewer for the 2009 Council for Graduate Studies in Education (CGSE) Student Reserach Conference. She has also particpated as a panelist and a co-presenter at the 2009 Latin American Social and Public Policy Conference. She served as a symposuim panelist and co-presenter at the 2008 AESA Conference. She has assumed the role of a lead presenter and other lead roles in several other professional conferences and events.