Dr. Daniel Wehrenfennig has worked in global education for over a decade. Born in Germany, he participated in many international educational programs during his youth and undergraduate education, allowing him to live in and experience first-hand conflict-affected areas in the Middle East, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, and the U.S., where he worked as a U.S. Congressional intern during 9/11. In 2003 he permanently moved to the U.S. and received his Ph.D. in Political Science/International Relations from the University of California, Irvine (2009). During his graduate studies, he founded and became the inaugural Executive Director of the Olive Tree Initiative, an award-winning experiential learning program based in the University of California system and housed at UC Irvine. He also created and taught in the Certificate Program in Conflict Analysis and Resolution and served as the Vice-Chair of the Chancellor’s Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture and Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine. In his doctoral work, Dr. Daniel Wehrenfennig studied Israeli-Palestine and Northern Ireland comparatively in the context of citizen involvement in the peace processes. In the last 15 years, he has traveled to the Middle East over 25 times and dozens of times to the South Caucasus (Turkey, Armenia, Georgia), Colombia, and Northern Ireland, mostly bringing groups of students and community members with him on educational travel.