Nele Feldmann is the director for the Welcome Corps on Campus at the Community Sponsorship Hub, where she is leading the organization’s work to implement private sponsorship of refugee students at US campuses. She previously served as the executive coordinator of the Global Task Force on Third Country Education Pathways and as the head of Student Emergency Initiatives at the Institute of International Education, where she supported the creation of higher education pathways for refugee students globally. Feldmann has more than nine years of experience designing, managing, and supporting programs that expand access to higher education for refugee and displaced student populations. Feldmann graduated from the University of Bonn in Germany with a master’s in translation for Arabic and French and a bachelor’s in political science. She worked and studied in France, Egypt, and Syria and participated in the prestigious yearly Arabic program at the French Orient Institute in Damascus from 2009-2010.