Adrienne Landry

BA SLL/History 2003

Ms. Adrienne Landry continued her education at Columbia University, and became interested in the South Slavic world. She currently works at KU in the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies as the Outreach Coordinator. (02/2012)

Career: KU CREES Outreach Coordinator. Prior to that she was a Recruiter for American Councils for International Education based in Serbia. And before that she was a Program Officer for the Project on Ethnic Relations working primarily in Montenegro.

Hobbies: Traveling, cooking, gardening, writing, and movies

Countries visited: Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain, Aruba, Barbados, Martinique, Uganda

Favorite place: Edinburgh, Scotland! No, wait, it's Kotor Bay, Montenegro. Or maybe it's Murtchison Falls, Uganda. It might be Brooklyn, New York. But it's probably Tbilisi, Georgia! (And also Lawrence, KS)

Favorite food: Mediterranean/Middle Eastern.

Favorite saying: Garmajos! the Georgian drinking toast meaning 'victory!'

Favorite books: Oh, the Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss and Broken April by Ismail Kadare