Getting Real About Cultural Equity in Education Abroad with Dr. Keshia Abraham

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Have you wondered how international education will ever truly achieve cultural equity? 

Do you feel lost in information and ideas and strategy meetings aimed to create more inclusivity in global programs? 

If this sounds like you, we have a great podcast episode for you today. 

Earlier this fall we host a live #InsideChat with Dr. Keshia Abraham discussing cultural equity in our field. She and Sam got really real about what it takes to build socially just programs and organizations.

Topics we'll cover:

• Keshia's international education journey and how she built a career in higher education capacity building, especially with regard to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion

• Deepening approaches to diversity in our field to go beyond the access-driven approach and the current PR-driven support statements about diversity and inclusion

• How to think about and enact more equity, especially cultural and racial equity, in the field of international education

About Dr. Keshia Abraham

Dr. Keshia Abraham is a compassionate J.E.D.I (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) educator committed to facilitating personal and organizational development and intercultural growth especially in international education.

Keshia firmly believes in the transformative power of international education and the long term impact it has, hence her unwavering commitment to comprehensive internationalization especially at HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities).  An elected Council member at the Forum on Education Abroad, Dr. Abraham has collaborated on working groups, presented at forums, seminars, and conferences on both international education and African (diaspora) literature all over the world.  Dr. Abraham earned a PhD in Comparative Literature with an emphasis on Postcolonial literature and culture (specifically African Diaspora Women’s Literature) and Popular Education and her Bachelor’s degree in English (emphasis on Women’s Studies) at the esteemed Spelman College.  She is also a certified Ayurvedic yoga specialist and experienced wellness practitioner which informs her J.E.D.I work.  

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