Brad Gillings joins ARCC bringing decades of industry experience and innovation.
We are very happy to announce that Brad Gillings has joined the ARCC team!
Brad is a pioneer in international experiential education and has spent much of his time over the past thirty five years in Asia, Africa, and South America. In the mid 1990’s Brad created Youth International, one of the United State’s first international gap year programs and led its first team on a ten month around-the-world learning adventure through eleven countries in Asia and Africa in 1997. After leading the second Youth International team through Asia for five months during the winter and spring of 1998, he took a step back from continuous life on the road and went on to build one of the most successful and long running programs in the gap year industry.
Brad recently received the American Gap Year Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his long-term contributions and impact to the field of experiential education, and for running Youth International’s “consistently excellent” programs in 17 different countries for over a quarter century.
"I couldn't be more excited to join the ARCC team! Over the years I have come to know ARCC through collegial friendships with staff members and having heard many great first hand stories about ARCC Programs from trip leaders and students who have worked and traveled with both ARCC and Youth International. ARCC has earned my highest respect with its reputation of consistently running high quality programs. With the changing post-COVID landscape of international experiential education, George Hoch is interested in not only continuing to run the same top notch trips they have for years, but is also looking to add some exciting new innovative programs to their repertoire as ARCC progresses into an ever changing future. I am thrilled to harness my years of experience and pour my heart and soul into helping ARCC build toward that bright and exciting future!"
We are thrilled that Brad will now join the team and propel us forward into the future as an innovative leader in experiential travel education.
