About Kris Holloway
Kris is President & CEO of CIS Abroad, an innovative education abroad company based in Easthampton, MA and dedicated to creating a more connected and compassionate world. Kris entered the field of international education in 2007 from the non-profit development world, and holds a MPH from the University of Michigan. She served as a community health agent in the Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa in the early 1990s and speaks (almost) fluent French. Kris is the author of a best-selling personal ethnography, Monique and the Mango Rains, based on her Peace Corps experience, and co-author of Shores Beyond Shores, the memoir of a Holocaust survivor. She is a founding board member of the Global Leadership League, a leadership development nonprofit. Her two adult children have studied and volunteered abroad in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Nepal, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, and Cambodia. She deeply believes in the transformational power of international exchange.