Veronica Onorevole is a senior program specialist. She is primarily responsible for supporting
emerging technologies and global learning innovation initiatives in U.S. higher
education. Onorevole’s work at ACE is dedicated to advancing U.S. higher
education to incentivize global learning opportunities that benefit all
students. Onorevole is working with the world's virtual exchange experts to
guide efforts to advance the next era of collaborative online international
learning (COIL) in U.S. higher education. She represents ACE on communicating
how emerging technologies are contributing to higher education’s
transformation, building support for cutting-edge global learning strategies in
the United States, growing alliances to promote virtual exchange in
international markets, and improving equity and access to digital global
learning among U.S. colleges and universities.
Prior to joining ACE, Onorevole worked at the Institute of
International Education (IIE) overseeing the administration of the Fulbright
U.S. Scholar Program to 17 countries in the East Asia Pacific region on behalf
of the U.S. Department of State. During her time at IIE, she worked with the
U.S. Embassy Rangoon on successfully sending the first cohorts of U.S. scholars
to Burma since 1987. She also created and implemented the Fulbright ASEAN
Research Program for U.S. Scholars and Fulbright U.S.-Taiwan International
Education Administrators Program.
Onorevole’s earlier experiences in international affairs
include six years as the educational programs manager for the American Society
of International Law and two years as a U.S. political/congressional affairs
researcher at the Embassy of Japan in Washington, DC. Onorevole lived in Japan as a university
exchange student at Temple University Japan and as an assistant English
language teacher in Fukushima prefecture through the Japan Exchange and Teaching
(JET) Program. She is recognized by the Japan Foundation and University of
Hawaii as a Japan specialist.
Onorevole holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and
Japanese language studies from Douglass College at Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey, and a master of international affairs degree from the School of
International Service, American University. She also attained a congressional
appointment and received honorable discharge from the U.S. Naval Academy.