journalists.

Kelly has taught journalism in Albania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and has worked with student journalists in Armenia, Kosovo, Mongolia and Georgia. She has also been a professional journalist in print and radio for more than 25 years.

This year, classes are held in Room 314 of historical Charles University, right off of Wenscelas Square in the heart of the city. The oldest university in central Europe, Charles University was founded in 1348 by Charles IV, the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia. An institution of major academic and cultural importance in the region since its founding, Charles University has endured the repression of both Nazi and Communist occupations. The appointment of new representatives of a free academic community was legalized in 1990, marking a new beginning of a systematiceffort to remove the 40-year-old inheritance of deformation in the life of the university as an academic institution. Charles University has been a partner of The Fund for American Studies in sponsoring the American Institute on Political and Economic Systems since 1993. Charles University is close to the metro, shops, museums and restaurants.

Michelle Jeffress-Le is EJI 2009’s international program director. She is a two-time alumna of The Fund for American Studies. She attended the Institute on Political Journalism in 1995, interning with the Military District of Washington as a staff reporter. The following year, she participated in the American Institute on Political and Economic Systems in Prague. In 1997 she returned to TFAS again, this time, serving as a program assistant for the international programs. In 1998 she