Meet the Staff

Our Team 

Tiffany Leach

Interim Director of Study Abroad & Away

Email address  twhitfi@ju.edu

Tiffany Leach is a Professor of Art and Chair of the Department of Visual Arts at Jacksonville University. She is also an artist with an active studio practice with a focus on ceramics. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Visual Arts with a concentration in Ceramics from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Visual Arts from the University of Georgia.

Professor Leach gained a passion for education abroad during a semester in Italy, studying art and art history, and she’s since become an advocate for providing students with real-world, immersive learning experiences. She has taught study abroad programs in Italy and Iceland, and her travels have taken her to Europe, South Africa, Canada, the Caribbean and Central America.

Her global experiences also include artist residencies in Rome, Italy and Skopelos, Greece, which continue to influence both her artwork and teaching approach. Outside of her academic responsibilities, Professor Leach enjoys working in her ceramic studio and traveling with her husband and two children.

Sarah McRae

 Study Abroad & Away Advising Coordinator

• Email addressEmail address smcrae@ju.edu 

Curious about the possibilities of international experiences, Sarah left her career of 15 years in Elementary Education and started her passion for cultivating  students love of studying abroad.

Sarah graduated from Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI and eventually made her way to sunny Florida.  Her most recent travels have taken her Italy where she enjoyed the cities of Milan, Rome and La Spezia, but Venice holds a unique and irreplaceable love for her.

Outside of work, Sarah is an avid reader.  If a city has an amazing library, she will want to see it.  Sarah also spends time watching true murder mysteries and hanging with her boys at the beach.