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Roundtable Session

Leadership Development

Storytellers of the Education Abroad Galaxy: Personal Narrative Advocacy

Thursday, March 20, 2025
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM US EST
Location: Dominion South, 2nd floor
What’s your Education Abroad superpower? In this session, participants will reflect and develop their professional “origin story” and think about what unique talents they bring to the field and apply them to identified professional goals/next steps. Through interactive activities, participants will get the opportunity to practice sharing their international ed “superpowers” and form international ed “super groups” that will go on to significantly contribute to the field’s knowledge economy.

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will be able to craft a short and compelling story of why they decided to be international educators, weaving in their identities and articulating the skills and value they bring to the field.
  • Participants will be able to identify how to use their story to advocate for themselves or to support their teammates.
  • Attendees will benefit from connecting with one another, in direct correlation with a key component of this session: building a strong support network.
  • Participants will create action plans for future engagement with their newly formed stories and how to use their stories to build knowledge communities and continue collaboration to contribute new ideas, best practices, and approaches to the field.