Inge Urbancic: An American lady who works on the Education of Sindh
By: Jokhio Jasarat Ilyas
The land of Sindh is so charismatic and attractive that whoever comes here, becomes its lover forever. An American lady named Professor Inge Urbancic is also one of those scholars from foreign, and experts who have been included in the list of philosophers who have worked for Sindh, Pakistan.
Inge was born in the “Charm City ” of Crabs and harbor Baltimore of Maryland, an American state. She got her primary education from Notre Dame Preparatory School and moved further for education to Loyola University Maryland for BBA International Business and Philosophy (Double Major) through study tours to Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Thailand from 1989 to 1994. She graduated in 1994. From 1997 to 1999 A.D, she completed her Master of Arts MA in TESOL from Notre Dame of Maryland University. In the meantime, she started teaching in the various universities and institutions of the USA and abroad like Northern Community College London VA, Fairfax County Public Schools, Virginia Tech Language and Culture Institute and Berlitz International, etc. She is not only an expert in her subject but also an experienced teacher, researcher, mentor, and philosopher. She has been a founder of various institutions like Avenia Solutions, EnglishWorks, Sea to Sea Travel and Integrated Management Solution, etc, while as recently, she has founded PATEN (a non-government professional institute of Pakistani American Teachers of English Language where she has been teaching and training various English teachers of Pakistan. She is currently working as a Ph.D. scholar at George Mason University Fairfax, VA USA.
She has been a Manager in the 140 years old American Institute BERLITZ INTERNATIONAL and is a famous teacher of various students from the global community. During studying various cultures, she fell in love with the land and culture of Sindh, which compelled her to visit Sindh, Pakistan and she visited Sindh from 26 March to 11 April 2021. Her dream of visiting Sindh and getting loved comes true when her student Saima Iqbal presents her with the most beautiful traditional gift of Sindh-Ajrak. She got immense pleasure.
The dreams of Prof. Inge Urbancic are to support Sindhi and Pakistani students in getting educated from American institutions on their merit. She visited Karachi-the capital and hub city of Sindh. She felt immense pleasure while meeting the little cutest and intelligent children. As she belongs to the harbor city of Baltimore in the USA, her love for the harbor city of Pakistan (Karachi Sindh) is very great and everlasting. In the future, she wants to work more for Sindhi students who would love to seek their education on a meritorious basis. She wishes to visit the famous University of Sindh at Jamshoro to present her research there as well.