{"id":17413,"date":"2012-07-19T13:24:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=17413"},"modified":"2017-11-09T12:07:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T17:07:39","slug":"natalie-dwarika-is-new-epe-program-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2012\/07\/natalie-dwarika-is-new-epe-program-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Dwarika is new EPE program coordinator."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie Dwarika has joined the staff of Executive and Professional Education (EPE). She handles logistics for EPE\u2019s popular international programs, including the inbound study tours, which bring students to campus for intense residencies.<\/p>\n<p>One of those proved very intense for her, too.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17414\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17414\" style=\"width: 328px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17414 size-full\" title=\"Natalie Dwarika\" src=\"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/natalie_dwarika.jpg\" alt=\"Natalie Dwarika\" width=\"328\" height=\"456\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natalie Dwarika<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhen I started the job, 43 Brazilian students arrived from the School of Higher Education in Marketing &amp; Communication Management (ESPM) for a non-credit study module that gives participants classroom experiences and business visits,\u201d Dwarika said. \u201cThe timing of their visit meant I dove into my responsibilities right away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in economics and management, plus a natural resource management post graduate certificate, from University of West Indies in Barbados and an MBA from the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining EPE, Dwarika was senior program coordinator for technical and vocational education in the National Training Agency in Trinidad and Tobago for eight years, followed by a stint at University of Phoenix in Miami. But she knew about FIU before working in Miami because her husband, Bishada Anthony (MIB \u201909), was a dual degree graduate with an MBA from Arthur Lok Jack and a Master of International Business (MIB) from FIU.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enjoy being part of team, helping build that team and interacting with students,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natalie Dwarika has joined the staff of Executive and Professional Education (EPE). She handles logistics for EPE\u2019s popular international programs, including the inbound study tours, which bring students to campus for intense residencies. One of those proved very intense for her, too. \u201cWhen I started the job, 43 Brazilian students arrived from the School of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[250,787,823,1984],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17413"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29569,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17413\/revisions\/29569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}