Jim Dressner

Jim Dressner

Manager, International Community Center

jim@iccmke.org

414.299.8828

What are your responsibilities at Eastbrook?
Overseeing all aspects of the ICC: welcoming refugees and immigrants, student enrollment, volunteer orientation and coordination, curriculum oversight, case management services, etc.

What do you love about what you do?
People from all over the world come to the ICC and I have the opportunity to help and befriend them.

If I had a free afternoon, you would find me…
Hiking or kayaking

I’ve been at Eastbrook since…2014

My life verse is…Colossians 1:21-22

My favorite place in the world is…Pokhara area of Nepal

I’m married to…Elaine

Proud parent of…Brian and Julie

Other Info Goes Here…Spending 22 years in Bangladesh forever changed me. I am less time focused, spend more time conversing, more tolerant of ambiguity, think of life as being in tension between competing ideals, less prone to elaborately plan in advance…in short, more Asian.

Education:
University of Virginia, BA in Architecture
Columbia Biblical Seminary, MA Bible