Ian and Erin Downs
With ISI in Northridge, CA

Welcome to our website! We're part of the organization International Students Inc. (ISI). We live and work in Northridge, California near the campus of California State University, Northridge. Currently, there are about 1,600 international students studying at CSUN, and there are several hundred others nearby in community colleges.

We see great potential in each one of the students that we meet. The next generation of world leaders is here! We do what we can to help them in many areas of life including: socially, intellectually, spiritually and in practical ways too. We both are interested in one-on-one mentoring. We have helped many students with their conversational and written English. We work with a team of Americans in the Los Angeles Area, all of whom exercise lots of hospitality to help internationals feel welcome.

We started working with ISI when we were students. However, in 2005, Ian completed his B.A. in Anthropology, and Erin finished her B.A. in Linguistics. Because of our interests in different cultures and languages, we love to hang out with International students. In the last 5 years we have had the opportunity to work with students from about 70 nations!