ssb Team / Network Partners


	The Team
		Monika Nottebohm studied geography and sports, receiving her diploma from the University of Heidelberg in 1979. In 1978 she spent a semester doing research in Mexico. During a year-long trip around the world in 1980, she taught English at a language school in Bangkok where Thai graduates were being prepared to attend colleges in the USA. Back in Germany, she worked as a high school teacher in Heidelberg and Freiburg. She is married and has a son and a daughter, both of whom attended 11th grade in a North American boarding school. E-Mail
		Erica Dutzi, state certified translator for English/German, came to Germany as an exchange student with AFS in 1979. She grew up in Maryland, U.S.A. and studied in West Virginia and Heidelberg. She lives in Heidelberg with her husband and three children and spent many years working as a translator and English teacher. Looking for new challenges, she joined the ssb-Nottebohm team in January 2007. E-Mail
		Katrin Heinen, received her Master’s degree in history, Romance studies and European art history in Heidelberg and Paris. She became familiar with various regions in the U.S.A. through participation in many geographic excursions and language courses. During her studies she worked for an international company on the side, did several internships (e.g. at the Goethe Institute and for the radio station Suedwestrundfunk) and did volunteer work for a German-American student exchange. She has been working on the ssb team in Heidelberg since January 2009. E-Mail
	Educational Consultants
		Dagmar Urbahn-Schiefer, certified social worker, studied social work in Düsseldorf. During the academic year 1975 – 76 she spent a year as an exchange student at the Jacksonville State University in Alabama. She went on to gain experience as social worker and advisor for children and young people of various ages and diverse cultural backgrounds. Among other things, she worked as head of an advising center for a large German health insurance company. E-Mail

	Monika Nottebohm with the two founders of ssb, Bruno Schiefer and Dagmar Urbahn-Schiefer