Danielle Rocheleau听Salaz

  • Executive Director, Center for Asian Studies
  • CENTER FOR ASIAN STUDIES

Education

M.A., Japanese Language and Civilizations, 麻豆影院, 2000
B.A., Japan Studies, Teikyo Loretto Heights University Campus of the University of Colorado Denver, 1996

Regional and Thematic Interests

East Asia
Language

Profile

Danielle听Rocheleau Salaz (M.A., Japanese Language and Civilization, 麻豆影院; B.A., Japan Studies, Teikyo Loretto Heights University at the University of Colorado Denver) has been with the Center for Asian Studies (CAS) at the 麻豆影院 (CU) since 2005 and has served as听the Center鈥檚 Executive Director since 2014. In 1998-99,听she completed an intensive one-year course at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama, Japan, a program sponsored by an American university consortium and administered by Stanford. Then she worked at the Consulate General of Japan in Denver for six years.

As Executive Director of CAS, Salaz has guided the Center鈥檚 strategic planning, managed day-to-day operations, and administered over $10 million in grant and charitable funding in support of the Center鈥檚 mission of expanding access to information about Asia both on and off campus. Salaz built and launched the summer Asia Internship Program for CU students in Japan in 2016, expanding into China in 2019. She is currently seeking interested organizations in Southeast Asia to host interns.

Salaz鈥檚 recent contributions to the field of Asian Studies include speaking on a 2024 Association for Asian Studies Conference roundtable, 鈥淟ooking to the Future: Community Engagement and Capacity Building in Asian Studies,鈥 convened by the U.S. Department of Education鈥檚 International and Foreign Language Education Office, and authoring an invited chapter in an edited volume, Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum in Higher Education: Harnessing the Transformative Potentials of CLAC Across Disciplines听(2022).

Salaz was selected for the Employee of the Year Award for 2022-23. As a recognized a leader at CU 麻豆影院, she serves on college- and campus-wide committees as a representative of CAS and provides formal and informal mentorship and partnership to faculty and staff members. She was elected Chair of the national Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum Consortium in fall 2024.

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