About Us

International Focus, Inc. is a non-profit organization with a mission to preserve and encourage ethnic cultures, both popular and traditional, by education initiatives, to foster and develop through education an awareness of the broad scope of ethnic backgrounds of all persons, and to promote American citizenship and its ideals among people of all nationalities by cultural educational means.

International Focus evolved from the successful production of the International Festival of Raleigh. Twenty-two years later it is a key component of the Triangle with over forty ethnic groups represented. International Focus assists students abroad and businesses seeking ethnic workers.

Board of Directors

Karen Edwards, President
Clodagh Lyons-Bastian, Vice-President
Pam Heye, Treasurer
Jonathan Serxner, Secretary
Stella Dreyer
Rachel McLaughlin
Robert Southerland
Derek Dickens

Staff

Kathy Knudsen, Executive Director
Kristin Knudsen, Event Coordinator

Contact Information

1307 Glenwood Ave. Suite 154
Raleigh, NC 27605 USA
(919) 832-4331
info@internationalfestival.org