Neal McKenna

As the Administrative Specialist at ELI, Neal handles many of the HR, financial and operational aspects of supporting the important work of ELI's faculty and staff. He also supports and supervises the student employees of ELI. He spent three years living in Beijing teaching English to children before returning to the U.S. to work in children's programming and then pursue his MA. Before working at ELI he was the Project Coordinator for the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, here at U-M.

Neal's personal hobbies include cooking (not great at baking though), sports-ing (playing and watching various sports), getting into nature to appreciate its awesomeness, and being a partner to his wife Catie and a parent to his sons Jack and Henry and dog LuLu.