Henry van Wagenberg lives in Baltimore.  He studied abroad in China, Germany and aboard a tall ship with SEA Semester.  He had a bad study abroad experience in Germany, which helped him notice that there wasn't any way to read student reviews about study abroad programs online.

John Henry works for the DC consulting firm Booze Allen Hamilton and lives in Washington, D.C.  He studied abroad on the Davidson Classics Trip, (which he loved) and is a graduate of Davidson College.  He and Henry came up with the idea of RateYourStudyAbroad together.  What a great idea.

Jeff Bordogna worked for Hotelicopter.com, a website dedicated to helping travelers find great hotel deals.  He studied engineering at the University of Virginia where he helped found theCourseForum.com, a space for UVA students and professors to share feedback on courses.  He grew up in New Jersey and now lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Alan Webb worked as a consultant in Australia after college.  Also a proud University of Virginia alumnus, he now he lives in Washington, DC.  In his spare time, he is more than likely to be found hanging out with very cool Tibetans, or, actually, visiting Tibet.  

Andrew McLaughlin graduated from Fairfield Univeristy in 2007.  He grew up in Baltimore and worked for Credit Suisse in Charlotte, North Carolina.  He studied abroad for one year in London with the Mountbatten Institute.

Andy Martin is the co-founder and CEO of Steadfast Associates, a group that helps enable creative projects.  Andy and Steadfast have been integral to the creation of RateYourStudyAbroad. Andy is a graduate of Davidson College.  He lives in Austin, Texas.

Other People Who've Helped Make RateYourStudyAbroad Happen

Chuck Yatsuk is a graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Chuck's hard-core programming skills have helped bring RateYourStudyAbroad to life. He has also exhibited his work as a sculptor in New York, Japan and South Korea.  He resides in Brooklyn, now that he's back from Korea.

Sophie Lvoff is a photographer and imager who has exhibited her photographs in New York, Boston, Maine and Berlin, Germany.  Sophie was the lead designer for RateYourStudyAbroad. A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Sophie lives in New Orleans.

Kristen Brooks is a Spanish major at NYU and a graduate of SYA - School Year Abroad Spain, where she studied for a year in Zaragoza. A native of New Jersey as well as Towson, Maryland, Kristen helped RateYourStudyAbroad reach out to students and study abroad offices.

Sketches by Marisa Lanterman and Sacha van Wagenberg. Sacha studied abroad with CCS in Tanzania!