Sydney Lazarus is the Outreach and FLAS Coordinator at the European Union Center, responsible for overseeing and planning outreach events and coordinating the Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship program. Prior to joining the European Union Center, Sydney worked at the UIUC Career Center and taught English in Georgia and North Macedonia. She holds master's degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Middlebury College.