Commencement 2011 Student Profile of Talent Development Alumna Karolina Gaide.
The University of Rhode Island’s International Business Program was the ideal opportunity for graduating senior Karolina Gaide to see the world and prepare for a career filled with international travel.
“From the very beginning I knew I wanted international business and German,” said Gaide, 23, who moved to Rhode Island from her native Latvia in 2004.
In sixth grade, Gaide learned some German and had always wanted to be able to converse in the language. Through the International Business Program, she spent a year in Germany, interning at Volkswagen in Emden and taking courses at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. She traveled throughout Europe and visited her father in Latvia frequently.