{"id":1004,"date":"2024-12-06T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-shwetakrishnan\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2025-04-18T19:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T19:04:26","slug":"audio-segment-and-profile-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-shwetakrishnan\/audio-segment-and-profile-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio Segment and Profile Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Internationalizing the Student Experience: Natalie Kenny-Hall Creates a Safe Space for International Students on UGA&#8217;s Campus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-shwetakrishnan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2159\/2024\/12\/Audio-Story_Krishnan.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Natalie Kenny-Hall has one main goal with her work: internationalizing the student experience at UGA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not just about working with international students and helping them here on campus, but it\u2019s also allowing students from the US to experience international culture as well,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senior Programming Coordinator for International Student Life at UGA seeks to create a stronger community among students through her work. She is involved in planning and programming events like International Coffee Hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At this event, students can be found talking about different cultures and sharing their experiences at UGA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLots of research shows that when students feel like they belong, they do better academically.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s not something she just tells international students; it\u2019s something she has experienced herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Natalie grew up in England and pursued her undergraduate degree there. She thought that moving to another \u201csimilar\u201d country would be simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMoving to an English speaking country, I thought the transition would be very, very easy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her empathy to understand the mixed emotions that these students might feel as they start college across the world allows her to connect with a variety of students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNatalie has helped me find my community at UGA by teaching us all that we need to be able to gain intercultural competency. Her trainings allowed us to understand how to communicate with people from different backgrounds and cultures,\u201d said Sowmya Gangyshetty, a third-year law student from India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 53 years that this event has taken place, Natalie has seen the firsthand impact that these interactions can have on a student\u2019s sense of belonging and finding friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI see (students) sitting down and talking to each other the first week, maybe the second week, and then by the end of term, they\u2019re best friends and they\u2019ve got a group of people,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s just wonderful to see that kind of organic friendship happen due to them coming to one of our events.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Natalie is also an advisor for five international student organizations at UGA- Bangladeshi Student Organization, Korean Undergraduate Student Organization, Indian Student Association, Nepalese Student Organization, Vietnamese Student Organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a fairly new job for me directly advising student organizations, but they\u2019re all wonderful. I\u2019d like to keep growing those skills to make sure that I can support them as best as possible,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When talking about how students can make the best of their experience through ISL\u2019s events and organizations, she suggests that they be open to new opportunities, even if it\u2019s scary at first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The biggest lesson that she hopes all students take from ISL events is that, \u201cthere\u2019s more that we have in common than we don\u2019t have in common from around the world,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Skills I Used:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This story continued on with my idea of continuing to report on International Student Life, but this time I was featuring an individual. I loved being able to do create story because it shows the depth I have with producing different types of journalistic pieces. Most importantly, I think this piece truly showcased how I continued to grow throughout the semester as a journalist by incorporating audio elements combined with a written story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internationalizing the Student Experience: Natalie Kenny-Hall Creates a Safe Space for International Students on UGA&#8217;s Campus Natalie Kenny-Hall has one main goal with her work: internationalizing the student experience at UGA. \u201cIt\u2019s not just about working with international students and helping them here on campus, but it\u2019s also allowing students from the US to experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4651,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-shwetakrishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-shwetakrishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-shwetakrishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-shwetakrishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-shwetakrishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-shwetakrishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-shwetakrishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-shwetakrishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/rp-shwetakrishnan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}