Executive Director

Elizabeth Stone PhD, CTC

Elizabeth Stone is Executive Director at Campanile. In addition to a PhD in Education, Dr. Stone is a Certified Travel Counselor (CTC).  She has been planning student tours for more than ten years.  Dr. Stone has visited more than 450 colleges in North America, the UK, Europe, and the Middle East. For more than 23 years, she has counseled students on college admissions and created Campanile College Tours so that families and students could have enjoyable and informative campus visits. Dr. Stone is a Virtuoso travel advisor and is the author of The Better College Essay: From Start to Finish (2021) and The Better College Essay: Fitting In and Standing Out (2014).

TRAVEL ADVISOR

nathan mack, Ed.D

Nathan Mack Ed.D has always had a passion for travel, languages, and culture. As a young kid in Kansas, he dreamed of seeing the world and had the first opportunity to do so when he studied abroad in Russian in 2005. The rest is history. Since then, he has traveled extensively throughout the world, having visited nearly 80 countries and all 50 U.S. States. Nathan has years of experience in the international college admissions world at Franklin University, Switzerland and University of Southern California.

Tour Manager

GABE HOFFMAN, CTA

Gabe is a Certified Travel Associate based in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis where he majored in Psychology and Linguistics. He studied abroad in Copenhagen and has traveled extensively throughout Europe. Gabe loves planning travel for all ages and especially loves cruises.

TRAVEL ADVISOR

D.ERIN CHARLSON

An avid traveler, D. Erin has also lived in Paris, Strasbourg, Berlin, and New York City. Her many recent trips include Mexico, South Africa, Japan, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, and Morocco. In the US she enjoys frequent trips to the Napa Valley and New England. She has led numerous tours in Israel and speaks French, German, and Hebrew. She is a graduate of Stanford University and earned her doctorate at Brown University.

We take your college list and travel dates and create a travel itinerary with a day on each campus with a variety of activities tailored to the interests of the student. We book the best places for you to stay near campus and arrange for your transportation whether it be by plane, private car, or train.  

We coordinate and compile all the details of your trip, such as directions from one campus to the next, parking, confirmation numbers, hotel information and amenities, class visit descriptions, and professor biographies, into a start to finish itinerary.

Everything goes into a convenient app, which allows for easy access while you’re on the road.