Eileen Mattingly is strongly committed to an interdisciplinary cross-cultural curriculum to help students understand and appreciate people from other cultures. Instrumental in developing the curriculum for Journeys in Film, she created an A.P. Language and Composition course and pilot program in American Ethnic Minority Literature for a Maryland school district and published teaching guides to multicultural novels for the Center for Learning. Eileen has been a curriculum consultant for PBS and presented curriculum workshops for the National Council of Teachers of English, the National Council for the Social Studies and other organizations. She recently served as Director of Coverdell World Wise Schools, the National Peace Corps’ K-12 program on cross-cultural education, Acting Director of Domestic Programs for the Peace Corps, and is working to create a high school focusing on global studies near Annapolis, Maryland. A teacher for over 30 years, Eileen has taught junior high through college in the Philippines, New York and Maryland. She has a B.A. in International Studies from Georgetown University, MA degrees from St. John’s University and Johns Hopkins University, advanced certification in English, History and Social Studies and has been selected for two fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities.