About Us

Our team of leading education and technology innovators launched Culture Agents to inspire students to engage with the world around them.

 

We would like to start by expressing our gratitude on behalf of Culture Agents’ Headquarters for your commitment to prepare this next generation for a global future. The most successful business and political leaders we have worked with are those who open themselves to the world around them. They are genuinely curious without judging. Meanwhile, they are deeply aware and proud of their own culture and can entertain intriguing discussions with those of different cultures, building strong connections that transcend borders. Like us, they were bitten with the travel bug. They are modern day explorers, dare we say, Culture Agents.

 

Joshua Halpern

Founder/Mission Director

Josh Halpern is a former U.S. Diplomat stationed in Beijing, China. He began his career in the education industry as a drama and English teacher at the T.A.S.I.S. international school in England. He later settled in Spain where he served as an academic adviser for the Fulbright Commission prior to launching his first company, IdiomArts Education, S.L., providing language services through the performing arts to youth, ages three to eighteen. He served as the regional manager for Georgetown University’s Center for Intercultural Education and Development (CIED) managing operations throughout Central America and the Caribbean. Mr. Halpern then joined Identity, Inc. to develop and manage cross-cultural training curriculum within the Maryland public school system. He later moved to Beijing, China as the head of strategic development for China Prep, LLC, an interactive educational tourism company with representatives in New York, Beijing and Shanghai. Josh moved to Mumbai, India where he served as the V.P. of Business Development for an education investment firm, Edvance Learning, Pvt. Started by the former president of the Times of India Group.  He currently runs the Getting to Global Initiative in partnership with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Small Business Administration and works with governments around the world to support small businesses expanding into new markets via digital platforms. His award-winning online workforce development, education and training portal can be found at  GrowBig.org.

 

Lottie Dowling

Executive Director of Content

 

Lottie Dowling has worked in education and schools for over 25 years as an educator  and professional learning leader on a global, national and regional levels. She has run networks of schools with educators working on pedagogical change and whole school improvement, facilitated PL in a range of topics linked to Global Competence;  Intercultural understanding, student action projects, as well as designs student programs and materials that support Student Voice and Agency in these topics. She facilitates a national one year student action program and designs and delivers Design Sprints for Cultural Diversity and Inclusion and Tech For Good. She is a real-life culture agent herself, having lived and worked globally for many years. She believes in the transformative power of education to support young people create and co-design a better world for everyone.