Steven Kropp is the Honorary Consul of Guatemala to North Carolina (emeritus). He is CEO and President of Comexxco, Inc. as well as Managing Director of the Tencate Nicolon Latin America Division. He has worked in six continents with a focus on developing new foreign markets, business turnarounds, and negotiation at high government levels. Mr. Kropp speaks English, Spanish, Italian, and Catalan, and is conversant in French and Portuguese. He graduated from ELISAVA (formerly the Rocosa School of Textile Design and Engineering) in 1969, and the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters from the University of Barcelona in 1966.

Dr. Eybl is a native North Carolinia, who grew up in Fayetteville. She lived and taught in Germany for 17 years before returning to the US and settling in Charlotte. She attended Gardner-Webb University and received the Master of Arts in School Administration and the Doctor of Education in Executive Leadership. She has served as the principal at South Academy of International Languages (S.A.I.L.), formerly Waddell Language Academy, since 2015. She is married to Dirk Eybl and has two children and six grandchildren.

Kelly moved to Charlotte from upstate New York in 2002 to begin a teaching career with Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools. In 2005, she joined Charlotte Latin School as a Lower School Spanish teacher and in 2017 became the Director of Global Studies. Bitten by the bug early on as a Rotary International Exchange Student in the Canary Islands, Kelly has a passion for building long-lasting relationships through cultural exchanges, curricular programming, and language acquisition. She and her husband Cory live just across the border in South Carolina with their daughter, Mila.

Rich is the vice president for planning and strategy at Queens University of Charlotte, where he leads the university’s strategic planning efforts and the human resources, institutional research, and campus safety offices. His decade of higher education experience has ranged from serving as principal of a data science and strategy startup to assistant dean of admissions and assistant vice president of donor relations and advancement strategy. Prior to his work in higher education, Rich was a high school Latin teacher in Minnesota.

Christian Smith is a junior at Providence Day School where he is part of the dual-degree global studies program. He lived and studied in Paris, France from age seven to twelve. He is a member of his school’s Model United Nations Club, French Club, Jazz Band, Student Council, Honor Council, Cross Country Team, and Track Team. In 2021, Christian was selected as Providence Day’s Sophomore of the Year. Prior to being appointed to the Board, Christian served as a member of the Charlotte Sister Cities Youth Leadership Committee.