Gek Lee Stevens, BA, MSW, has worked in the field of international education and marketing since 1990. As the first Director of International Programs at a highly ranked college preparatory school in Seattle, Washington, she created an effective academic curriculum for non-native English speakers and a residential life curriculum for its international boarding community. She hired faculty, created international summer and special camps and exchanges, and facilitated cultural training programs for adults and adolescents from many countries. For years Gek successfully marketed programs she created in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. She has also provided learning assessments, school placements, and extensive cross-cultural counseling for international students and their parents.

Before beginning her career in international education, Gek earned a bachelor’s degree at Whitman College and a Master’s degree in Social Work at the University of Washington. She also owned her own retail business of 12 years in Seattle. Gek has served on several Seattle Mayor task forces, business and community organizations and was named outstanding businessperson of the year in her business community. Most recently she was a member of the Greater Seattle Trade Development Association’s trade mission to Japan.

Gek has mastery in the English language and can converse in Chinese and Malay.

G.Scott Stevens, MD joined Global Education Resources after more than thirty years of private medical practice in Seattle. A native of Washington State, Dr. Stevens spent a year as an AFS exchange student to Germany. He subsequently received his Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Whitman College. After two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in SE Asia, he returned to America to pursue a career in medicine. Upon graduating from the University of Washington School of Medicine, he specialized in Family Medicine and has remained continuously certified in this specialty ever since. He has maintained membership in multiple professional societies and has been recognized with numerous awards for excellence in his field.

Dr. Stevens has had extensive experience in health care and education. He has served as departmental and chief of his hospital medical staff and is a past trustee and president of the King County Medical Society. He has served on two separate hospital boards and has served as a clinical educator for the University of Washington Department of Family Medicine. He has been a teacher and lecturer for multiple professional events.

An active owner in Global Education Resources, Dr. Stevens brings extensive experience and talent to the field of international education. Of course he possesses special expertise in the health care and medical field.

Barbara James, BA, MAT has been a teacher in a variety of settings, public and private, for over thirty years. While taking a break from Whitman College, where she earned a degree in Sociology, she taught classes for the U. S. Cultural Center in Belem, Brazil. Her experiences there and later, as an instructor for adult education classes at a migrant labor camp in Oregon, inspired her desire to continue her education and obtain a masters degree in teaching at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon. She began her teaching career as a middle school social studies teacher in Beaverton, Oregon.

Her husband’s medical training and practice took the family around the western United States, and during those years she home schooled their growing family and taught Spanish part-time in private schools. As the children left for college, she returned to classroom teaching back in Oregon, at the largest public high school in the Salem-Keizer School District. Her responsibilities there included teaching and curriculum development for regular and “sheltered” (for English Language Learners) social studies classes; teaching in and development of a new freshman house community; representing her colleagues on the school site council; and work for the school district, on committees to select new textbooks and to revise and update sheltered courses in social studies. As an ELL teacher, she considered it a special privilege and pleasure to work with students of many language backgrounds, from all over the world.