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title: ICES Blog | Michelle Krueger
description: Michelle Krueger has been a host mom twice and will be again this coming fall. A Local Coordinator in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area since January of 2024, she loves sharing with young people how student exchange can open them to a wider, more fascinating world. When she’s not winning over sleepy teenagers, she’s a fiction book editor and writer, and spends a lot of time in her garden fighting weeds and befriending bees.
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## Michelle Krueger

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Michelle Krueger has been a host mom twice and will be again this coming fall. A Local Coordinator in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area since January of 2024, she loves sharing with young people how student exchange can open them to a wider, more fascinating world. When she’s not winning over sleepy teenagers, she’s a fiction book editor and writer, and spends a lot of time in her garden fighting weeds and befriending bees.

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![](https://blog.icesusa.org/hubfs/Michelle%20Krueger.png) By [Michelle Krueger](https://blog.icesusa.org/author/michelle-krueger) On June 14, 2024

## [My YES! to Becoming a Local Coordinator](https://blog.icesusa.org/my-yes-to-becoming-a-local-coordinator)

I was a previous ICES host mom, so when ICES asked for coordinators to help place exchange students with host families, I didn’t...

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