Meet the Events Team

Elaine Finnegan

Events Director

A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Elaine has always had a desire to travel and spent a year living in Australia prior to joining the International Living team. This wanderlust serves her well in her current position, She has been involved in organizing, marketing, and running International Living's numerous events for the past two years. With 20-odd events a year, Elaine is kept busy traveling around the International Living world and has run events in France, Italy, the U.S., Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Argentina, and Thailand.

Grant Perry

Events Director

Grant will always call New Zealand home but currently works from International Living’s head office in Waterford, Ireland, organizing IL’s range of worldwide events. After graduating from Waikato University with a bachelor of management studies (majoring in international marketing), he spent two years in London--the start of his big “O.E.” (Overseas Experience). Working in London’s financial sector funded journeys to Europe, the U.S., and Asia, and he hasn’t lost his thirst for travel since. In addition to travel in Central and South America, Grant has driven coast to coast across the U.S three times, lived in North Carolina, Los Angeles, and Baltimore, and in 2006 seized the opportunity to work from IL’s Panama office for the year. When not playing tag rugby, he is most at home in the surf.

Brigid Darragh

Events Customer Service Liaison

Brigid grew up in a small farming town in Connecticut. After earning a degree in English and Spanish language and literature from Loyola College in Maryland, she moved to Bangkok, Thailand, to teach English as a second language at Assumption University. She has spent time traveling Southeast Asia, Mexico, and a semester living in Granada, Spain, where she studied at la Universidad de Granada. Brigid is excited to be working for International Living in Baltimore, encouraging people to discover life outside of the United States, as she has had the fortune of doing in the past few years.

Donna De Remigis

Events Customer Service Liaison

Donna came to International Living after a 15-year career in the travel industry. She grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and received her bachelor's degree from the College of Notre Dame, Maryland. She has a degree in marketing and communications. She has also studied Ohashiatsu at the Dai Bosatsu Zendo in the Catskills of New York and is a certified Ohashiatsu practitioner. Her passion for travel and the arts has taken her to many countries outside of the United States including Panama, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Her spare time is spent practicing Ohashiatsu and working with stained glass.

Martina Latini

Events Promotion Manager

Martina was born in Torino, Italy, where she graduated in marketing and languages. Living abroad has always been her dream, which she finally fulfilled in 2005 when she found a new home in Ireland, after having worked for a tour operator in France and Morocco. As promotion manager for the Events Division, Martina coordinates the communication with the readers, deals with all the administrative aspects, and is responsible for the Events website and forum.