Voices

Shoshanna Sumka
International alternative breaks enable participants to explore social justice and environmental issues at their root.
Niamh Hamill
Niamh Hamill shares her perspective on the benefits and challenges of facilitating education abroad programs to Ireland.
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Bryan McAllister-Grande, EdD
The golden age of international education isn’t in the past—it’s yet to come. The evolving, interdisciplinary field promises exciting developments in the years ahead.
Esther D. Brimmer, DPhil
NAFSA Executive Director and CEO Esther D. Brimmer, DPhil, examines the role that regional teams and conferences can play in NAFSA members’ sense of community and leadership development.
Charlotte West
The founder and CEO of Diversity Abroad talks about opportunities for growth in the areas of diversity, inclusion, and equality.
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Roric McCorristin
How education abroad staff at predominately white institutions can learn from and work with their colleagues at historically black colleges and universities to move the needle on increasing minority student participation in study abroad.
Isabel Wilkerson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and NAFSA 2017 Annual Conference & Expo plenary speaker, discusses the perspective her work, her travels, and her study of U.S. history have given her on the world and international higher education.
Nadia De Leon
Study abroad, international education, and intercultural education are experiential learning avenues offered to students as a rich opportunity to fulfill a general education course requirement on diversity while having a life-changing experience.