Jody McBrien
My blogs
- Beijing 2016
- Going Home
- Africa reunions - Summer 2011
- Uganda, Feb-Mar 2012
- Japan 2017
- Ghana trip
- Uganda Diary
- Sabbatical 2014
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Professor of Educational Studies |
| Location | Sarasota, FL, United States |
| Introduction | I teach in the School of Education and the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at the University of South Florida and live in a beautiful part of the country. 2014 took my husband Dick and me to the other side of the world - New Zealand! In 2017, I taught for several months at Soka University in Japan. Meanwhile, we have traveled in several European countries - the UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany, Italy, and Romania - and were in Beijing in August 2015. To say we are privileged is an understatement. We are humbled and grateful for our opportunities to learn about other world cultures. |
| Interests | Dancing, writing, swimming, travel, reading, human rights and social justice, my family, animals (especially horses, cats, and wild animals) |
| Favorite Movies | Shirley Valentine, Shakespeare in Love, The Mask of Zorro, LOTR, Hunger Games -- I'm sure there are plenty I like better than these but can't think of them just now. |
| Favorite Music | Il Divo, Josh Groban, George Gershwin, Beethoven, Verdi operas, Irish, Andrea Bocelli |
| Favorite Books | Stolen Angels, The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo series, Wild Swans, Three Cups of Tea, Shake Hands with the Devil, anything by Paulo Coelho, Harry Potter books, Middlemarch, collections of poems by Robert Browning and by Mary Oliver |
What do you do to make the world a better place? Overcome hatred with love, bigotry with understanding, poverty with education and equality, religion with science and logic.