Advocacy Strategies for Advancing International Education

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Event Date	Event Time	Registration Deadline	Registration
November 1, 2022	2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	October 31, 2022	Registration Closed

Join NAFSA’s International Education Leadership Knowledge Community for an informative panel discussion on successful strategies to use when advocating for international education, including best practices for working with a government relations office. Panelists are seasoned professionals with a wide range of advocacy and institutional expertise, including a senior international officer, a federal relations officer, and a NAFSA Advocate of the Year from states representing the full political spectrum. Questions will be addressed, as time allows, at the end of the presentation. The content is relevant to senior international officers and international education leaders working with a government relations office on campus.

NAFSA Peer-to-Peer Perspectives facilitate an online dialogue between international education professionals. Participants should come prepared to listen, learn, and share with their peers.

Speakers

Kalpen Trivedi, PhD

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Kalpen Trivedi, PhD, is vice provost for global affairs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is responsible for campus-wide global engagement and exercises operational and strategic oversight of the International Programs Office. He has more than eighteen years of experience in...

NAFSA: Association of International Educators

Senior Director, Public Policy & Legislative Strategy

Rachel Banks is senior director for public policy and legislative strategy at NAFSA. Her portfolio focuses primarily on advocating for U.S. government policies that attract international student and scholars to study or conduct research in the United States, and oversees the production of NAFSA’s...

Houston Christian University

Advocacy Representative, Region III

Shannon Bedo is the Director of International and Veteran Student Services at Houston Christian University, where she leads efforts for recruiting, admissions, immigration, and programming for the international and veteran student population. She has previously served at Baylor College of Medicine...

Fordham University

Bill Colona is a public policy professional with nearly 14 years of combined experience in higher education, the United States Congress, and the nonprofit sector, and currently serves as Fordham University's Assistant Vice President for Government Relations, Federal and Urban Affairs. In this...

Florida Atlantic University

Mihaela Metianu, EdD, currently serves as the assistant provost for global engagement at Florida Atlantic University. She joined FAU in 2006. As the senior international officer at her institution, she is responsible facilitating and coordinating the global strategic platform and for leading a wide...