Megan Amouzou

Megan Amouzou leads the operations of recruiting and selecting the best and brightest young professionals from across the world to build an engaged and diverse community of residents. She also is chair of the committee that awards more than $500,000 in need-based financial aid to ensure that the diversity of community extends beyond the geographic to socioeconomic diversity. Born in Missouri, Megan was a young child when her family moved to Guatemala, where her parents worked as missionaries providing health care and job training to local villagers. After three years in Guatemala, her family moved to Ossining, New York. Megan holds a BA from SUNY Oswego in Spanish and Russian and spent her entire senior year abroad, studying one semester in Moscow and one in Madrid. She came to International House as Admissions Coordinator in May 1997 and was promoted to Assistant Director of Admissions just a year later, becoming Director of Admissions in 2001.