Social Justice & International Education: Exploring the Intersections

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This event is available for on-demand access through December 31, 2020. You may purchase access to all IEW Campus Connection programming through December 15, 2020.

Featuring: Michele Norris
An acclaimed journalist, author, and social advocate, Michele Norris fosters important dialogue on current events, social issues, and the power to make change. She will serve as the keynote for this special event.

Higher education institutions and international educators have played a vital role in resolving conflict through education, training, and research. This program brings together educators, scholars, and practitioners who are doing innovative work promoting social justice, confronting inequality, and fostering social responsibility in a global context.

You Should Attend

If you are currently engaged with social justice initiatives
If you want to learn more about the intersection of social justice with international education
If you are interested in using international education to develop social responsibility and enhance social justice initiatives
If you are interested in ensuring international education initiatives are equitable and socially just

What You Will Gain From Participating

Knowledge and examples of international education programs and initiatives that develop students’ sense of social responsibility, and that enhance social justice initiatives
Perspectives on the ways in which international education opportunities can be made more equitable
Understanding of key ways in which international education and social justice can become mutually reinforcing

Featured Speakers

Michele Norris

Michele Norris is a Peabody Award-winning journalist, founder of The Race Card Project and Executive Director of The Bridge, The Aspen Institute’s new program on race, identity, connectivity and inclusion. For more than a decade Norris served as a host of NPR's All Things Considered where she...

George Mason University

NAFSA President and Chair of the Board of Directors

LaNitra Berger, PhD, is the Associate Professor of Art History and Director of African and African American Studies at George Mason University (GMU). She has helped students secure more than 60 prestigious fellowships such as the Fulbright, Boren, Gilman, Truman, Udall, and Critical Language...

NAFSA: Association of International Educators

Former Executive Director and CEO

Esther Brimmer, DPhil, served as the executive director and chief executive officer of NAFSA: Association of International Educators from 2017 - 2022. Dr. Brimmer’s distinguished career includes three appointments within the U.S. Department of State, serving most recently as the assistant secretary...

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Archie P. Cubarrubia, EdD, serves as deputy director, institutional transformation in the postsecondary success team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He leads the foundation’s team responsible for understanding how colleges and universities transform themselves to dramatically improve their...

Agenda


10:00 a.m. – 10:10 a.m.	Welcome & Introductions Esther Brimmer, DPhil, Executive Director and CEO, NAFSA Alexa Zellentin, PhD, Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Normative International Political Theory, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin (on behalf of event sponsor Education in Ireland)
10:10 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.	Keynote Address: Michele Norris, Founder, The Race Card Project; Executive Director, The Bridge at the Aspen Institute Moderator: LaNitra Berger, PhD, Senior Director, Office of Fellowships, Office of Undergraduate Education; Affiliate Faculty, African and African American Studies Program, George Mason University; NAFSA Vice President for Public Policy and Practice
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.	Author Interviews Authors of chapters in NAFSA’s Social Justice & International Education book provide answers to the question: “What is the role of international education in facilitating social justice?” Social Justice & International Education: Research, Practice, and Perspectives: An Overview & Introduction to Panels LaNitra Berger, PhD
11:00 a.m. – 11:35 a.m.	Panel: International Education as/for Social Change Panelists: Tasha Willis, EdD, Associate Professor, Social Work; Faculty Director for Internationalization, California State University-Los Angeles Malaika Marable Serrano, MA, Vice President for Diversity & Inclusion, WorldStrides—Higher Education Rodolfo “Rudie” Altamirano, PhD, Director, International Student & Scholar Services; Director, Immigration & Integration Services; University of Pennsylvania Moderator: Eduardo Contreras, EdD, Assistant Provost for International Education, Diversity, and Inclusion, University of Portland
11:35 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.	Author Interviews Authors of chapters in NAFSA’s Social Justice & International Education book provide answers to the question: “How can international educators promote social justice (e.g. in their programs, classrooms, across campus, across communities, internationally... with students, with colleagues, with themselves)?”
11:45 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.	Panel: Racializing the International Student Experience Panelists: Shontay Delalue, PhD, Vice President of Institutional Equity and Diversity, Brown University Supriya Baily, PhD, Associate Professor, Associate Director, Center for International Education, George Mason University Chrystal George Mwangi, PhD, Associate Professor of Higher Education, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Moderator: Keshia Abraham, PhD, Founder, The Abraham Consulting Agency
12:20 p.m. – 12:40 p.m.	Poem: over&over by Padraig ÓTuama LaNitra Berger, PhD
12:40 p.m. – 12:55 p.m.	Transforming Higher Education: A conversation with Archie P. Cubarrubia, EdD, deputy director, institutional transformation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Esther D. Brimmer, DPhil
12:55 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Concluding Remarks

NAFSA thanks Education in Ireland for its generous support of this event.

You Should Attend

What You Will Gain From Participating

Featured Speakers

Michele Norris

LaNitra Berger, PhD

Esther D. Brimmer, DPhil

Archie P. Cubarrubia, EdD

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