Speaker Biographies
2025 Plenary Keynote:
Bridging Perspectives on Equity in Global Education
Katie DeGuzman, Dean and Director for Education Abroad, Dickinson College
Katie is a career-long education professional with extensive experience in international education leadership, diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. With a background spanning various roles in education abroad administration, she has worked at many institutions spanning large research institutions, community colleges, small, liberal arts colleges. Katie has demonstrated expertise in program development, workshop design and facilitation, crisis management, and intercultural competency. Her commitment to advancing global education and fostering inclusive environments is evident through her publications, presentations, and active involvement in professional organizations.
At Dickinson College, in addition to providing leadership and supervision for education abroad, Katie develops and facilitates intercultural/DEI programming for students, faculty and staff and contributes to inclusive leadership initiatives. She is an IDI Administrator, the previous co-chair of Diversity Abroad’s subcommittee on First Generation/High Need students, a previous member of NAFSA’s EA Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion and has co-authored and contributed to open-source community content on global DEI. Katie, who has been in the field for eighteen years, holds a Master of Education degree from the University of Florida and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Education degree at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with research at the intersection of international education and DEI.
2025 Pre-Conference Workshop Facilitators:
Intercultural Pedagogy for Transformative Learning
Tara Harvey, PhD, Founder and Chief Intercultural Officer, True North Intercultural
Tara is a specialist in intercultural teaching and learning in higher education. She brings together broad experience in international education with a deep understanding of the intercultural development process. She has worked at institutions such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange), in both teaching and administrative roles. In 2016, Tara founded True North Intercultural LLC to help colleges and universities fulfill their missions to develop interculturally-competent global citizens in a sustainable way, by building intercultural capacity among faculty and staff. Her PhD is in Comparative and International Development Education from the University of Minnesota.
The Missing Piece: Enhancing Student Learning through Effective Re-Entry Programs
Stephen Braye, PhD, Professor of English, Elon University
A Professor of English at Elon University in North Carolina, Steve has led experiences in Louisiana, New York, China, Costa Rica, England, Ireland, Zambia and across Europe. He has been teaching “The Impact of Study Abroad: Coming Home” for returning study abroad students every semester for the past ten years.