Alumni
We are proud of our alumni and encourage the continued engagement of our former villagers.
Over the years, numerous dignitaries and supporters have visited Concordia Language Villages including Germany’s Ambassadors Peter Hermes (1983), Gunther Van Well (1987), Jürgen Chrobog (1998), Wolfgang Ischinger (2003) and Klaus Scharioth (2007). Other ambassadors have included Finnish Ambassador Jaakko Laajava (1998), Austrian Ambassador Peter Moser (2002), Ambassador of Norway to the United States Knut Vollebæk (2003), Finnish Ambassador Jukka Valtasaari (2004) and Ambassador of the Principality of Liechtenstein Claudia Fritsche (2004).
Other countries have sent representatives from their consulates or other key Embassy officials. In the early 1990s, Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton visited the Villages, and both had children attend as villagers.
Notable Staff & Village Alumni
Notable Staff and Villager Alumni include:
- Chelsea Clinton
(Vice Chair, Clinton Foundation) - Kurt Andersen
(Journalist and NPR program host) - Alexander Payne
(Movie director/producer) - Eric Falt
(Assistant Director-General – UNESCO)
If you are a former villager and would like to join our Alumni & Friends Network, or if you’ve already joined and need to update your contact information, please click the button below.
- Chelsea Clinton
(Vice Chair, Clinton Foundation) - Kurt Andersen
(Journalist and NPR program host) - Alexander Payne
(Movie director/producer) - Eric Falt
(Assistant Director-General – UNESCO)
If you are a former villager and would like to join our Alumni & Friends Network, or if you’ve already joined and need to update your contact information, please click the button below.
Conference Presentations & Tabling Events
Concordia Language Villages staff present or table at a number of language and education events across the country. Join us at an upcoming event. We'd love to connect with you.
Interested in connecting with fellow CLV alumni? Let us know if you’ll be attending one of these events and would be interested in a casual CLV alumni gathering. If there’s enough interest, we’ll organize a social event alongside one of the conferences.
- Fostering Language Acquisition in North Carolina Conference — Oct. 2-3 Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures — Nov. 13-14 | St. Paul, Minnesota
- ACTFL - Nov. 20-22 | San Antonio, Texas
- 300th Military Intelligence Brigade's LANGCON — February 2027 (Location/Date TBD)
- Joint National Committee for Languages' Language Advocacy Days — March 1-2, 2027 | Washington, DC
- Central States Language for All — March 11-13, 2027 | Lansing, Michigan
Interested in connecting with fellow CLV alumni? Let us know if you’ll be attending one of these events and would be interested in a casual CLV alumni gathering. If there’s enough interest, we’ll organize a social event alongside one of the conferences.
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- Fostering Language Acquisition in North Carolina Conference — Oct. 2-3 Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- Minnesota Council on the Teaching of Languages and Cultures — Nov. 13-14 | St. Paul, Minnesota
- ACTFL - Nov. 20-22 | San Antonio, Texas
- 300th Military Intelligence Brigade's LANGCON — February 2027 (Location/Date TBD)
- Joint National Committee for Languages' Language Advocacy Days — March 1-2, 2027 | Washington, DC
- Central States Language for All — March 11-13, 2027 | Lansing, Michigan