Des Moines Register profiles Karen Edwards, assistant dean and director of international student affairs

Background: I grew up in Le Mars and attended Luther College. My undergraduate study abroad experience in Denmark inspired me to travel. I studied higher education administration at the University of Iowa and secured an assistantship in the International Center. The next 12 years were spent directing international student affairs at the College of Wooster in Ohio. I returned to Iowa with my husband and two sons in 2007.