Community Diversity and Governance

• Advancing Equity

  Claire Johnston, Stephen T. Garnett
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Digital Sovereignty and Cultural Competence in Global Platform Governance

  Réka Brigitta Szaniszló
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Assessing the Impact of the Dobbs Abortion Ruling on Women and Low-Income Populations

  Haco Hoang
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Interreligious Dialogue and Social Cohesion

  Triyanto Triyanto
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Party Organisations for Closing Diversity Gaps?

  Maritta Soininen
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• From Policy to Practice

  Daniel Esparza
  Workshop Presentation

• Do Increases in RIO’s Authority in Africa vis-à-vis Their Member States Improve These Members’ Attractiveness for Foreign Direct Investment?

  Svet Derderyan
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Digital Legal Access and the Politics of Inclusion

  Joanna Osiejewicz
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Identity and Belonging

• “We Still Have to Unlearn. We Are Programmed, You Know?”

  Christiane Ndedi Essombe
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Intersecting LGBTQI Language Educator Identity Negotiation, Experience Navigation, and Institutional Heteroprofessionalism

  Mehmet Sahin
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Beyond Islamic Schools

  Narmeen Ramadan
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Original Sins of Nation Building

  Magdaleno Manzanárez, Ambar Varela, Julieta Altamirano-Crosby
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Care, Distance, and Citizenship

  Ritsuko Kurita
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Evolution of Diverse Food Gifting Traditions and How They Reflect and Reveal Cultural Values

  Constance Kirker
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Erendira

  Rose Borunda
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Migrant (m)Othering of Multicultural Family Services in South Korea

  Eunjung Lee
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Other Mexico - Afrodescendants, Cultural Resilience, and the Struggle for Visibility

  Julieta Altamirano-Crosby, Ambar Varela, Magdaleno Manzanárez
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Korean Cuisine as a Mode of Urban Belonging in Santiago-Chile

  Martina Cayul
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Beyond the Margins - Black Women’s Lived Experiences of Psychological Safety in Legal Workplaces

  Chanel Bradden
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Re-Framing Resilience

  Maria Mackinney
  Innovation Case Studies

• Architects of Resilience - a Narrative Framework for Interconnected Parenting, Education, and Leadership

  Allison Blair Snyder
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Embodied Memories and Feminist Praxis

  Gladys Kalichini
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Autobiography in the Making

  Sidonia Alenuma
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Supported Decision Making and Shared Decision Making in Mental Health Counseling for Adult Patients with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

  Mang Yip
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Driving Leadership Commitment to Build Brave and Safe Spaces.

  Gerardo Gauthier Zayas, Ed.D.
  Workshop Presentation

• Pan-Indianism - the Unintended Consequences of the Forced Indian Boarding School Experiment in USA and Canada

  Laurence Armand French
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Reimagined Voices in the Crucible of Diversity - Media, Identity, and Resilience in Post-Conflict Cameroon

  Afutendem Lucas Nkwetta, Carlous Muluh Nkwetisama
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Cultural Symbols

  Essien Oku Essien, Awni Kalkat, Sonika Lamichhane
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• AI and Digital Diversity - Building Inclusive Narratives on Social Media

  Raquel Camargo
  Workshop Presentation

• The Way of Befriending

  Parfait Bassalé
  Workshop Presentation

Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• Parents' Views on Testing a Plurilingual Digital Platform in the Classroom and at Home

  Josée Charette, Catherine Gosselin Lavoie
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Design and Pilot Test of an Implicit Bias Mitigation Curriculum for Medical Clinicians

  Benjamin Reese, Jr.
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Prevalence of Bullying among Children at School

  Dulce Maria Aparicio, María Azucena Caro Dueñas, Elvira Martinez Salomon, Ambar Varela
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Culture and Perspectives on Sexual Assault Policy

  KelleyAnne Malinen
  Workshop Presentation

• Teaching Practice in Multi-grade Schools in a Context of Diversity

  María Azucena Caro Dueñas, Ambar Varela
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• From Individual Voice to Collective Action

  Sinela Jurkova
  Workshop Presentation

• Arts-Based Pedagogies as Catalysts for Critical Thinking, Empathy, and Reflection

  Katherine Soule
  Workshop Presentation

• Intercultural Rhetoric in Practice

  Fayyaz Vellani, Kate Kramer
  Workshop Presentation

• Constellations

  Dawn Wink
  Workshop Presentation

• Transformative Effects of Storytelling for Graduate Students

  Zalphia Wilson Hill
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• From Global Insights to Local Action

  Girija Nagaswami, Thandi Gumbi
  Workshop Presentation

• Plurilingual Picture Books Between School and Home

  Catherine Gosselin Lavoie, Josée Charette
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Taking It to The Streets

  Jeffry Will
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Systemic Reconciliation of Lack of Representation in Educational Settings

  Araceli Feliz, Rose Borunda
  Workshop Presentation

• Dual-Lens Framework for Equity-Centered Education

  Zamzam Dini, Miguel Quinones
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Pedagogics of Responsible Relation

  Justin Jiménez
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Moving the Socratic Method Online

  Carol Strong
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Between the Guarantee of the Right to Education and Cultural Domination - On the Challenges Indigenous Peoples Face in Accessing Education

  Elvira Martinez Salomon, Ambar Varela
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Engagement, Deception, Ambivalence, and Conformism:

  Cindy Rauth
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Creating Structures of Care for Equity-Seeking Higher Education Reformers

  Jen Westmoreland
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Diversity and Inclusion in Dance and the Child international (daCi)

  Jeff Meiners, Vesna Geršak
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Organizational Diversity

• Navigating Identity in the Workplace: An Examination of Stereotype Experiences Across Generational and Social Groups

  Elizabeth Candello
  Poster Session

• Aligning Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Organizational Strategy - Lessons from Global Technology Firms

  Parish Jefferson
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Courage to Converse

  Karen Mighty
  Workshop Presentation

• Beyond the Checkbox

  Christopher Zraunig
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Racial Representation in a Faculty Cluster Hire

  Terresa Hardaway, Mia Riza
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Consensus Decision-Making Models and Approaches - a Realist Review for Higher Education

  Ulises Charles Rodriguez, Matthew Wildcat, Malinda S. Smith, Pamela Roach, Aleem Bharwani, Diane Lorenzetti, Lorian Hardcastle, Suha Damag, Jennifer Markides
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Beyond Inclusion Fatigue

  Anthony Manuel Cruz Pantojas
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Women Who Love Women

  Gustavo Hart Da Rosa, Patrícia Martins Fagundes Cabral
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• [It’s] Always Better When Something Is Organic

  Adia Wingfield
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Navigating Credentialing Hurdles

  Ayodeji Osiname
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Mentoring as Policy

  Kimberly Colclough
  Workshop Presentation

• Beyond Representation

  Dwayne Dixon
  Innovation Case Studies

• Institutional Isomorphisms as Mechanisms of Change in Diversity Management

  Elwira Gross-Gniot
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Ticket - How a Community Partnership Created a College Going Culture among First-Generation Students

  Gilberto Mireles
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Equity Policy as Non-Performative

  Goli Rezai-Rashti, Shirin Abdmolaei
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

2026 Special Focus—The Social Impacts of Geopolitics: Interventions to Strengthen Humanity

• “I Am Because We Are”

  Gabriel Ayayia, Onosedeba Mary Ayayia
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• #BlackLivesMatter Arts

  antonio c. cuyler, ph.d.
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Sustainability and Culture

  Francisca Listopad
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Importance of Transgender History Social Work Education to Stop Trans Erasure

  Satara Charlson
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Artificial Intelligence, Project Management, and Governance Transformation

  Maria Elena Sanchez Zambrano
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Montreal Cégeps and Forensic Architecture Methodologies

  Jennifer Angela Lopes
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Urban Patterns, Social Dynamics and Architectural Identity in Benin City

  Timothy 'Seyi Odeyale
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• America’s Democratic Experiment

  La Shonda Campbell
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Advancing Equity

  Claire Johnston, Stephen T. Garnett
  Community Diversity and Governance

• “We Still Have to Unlearn. We Are Programmed, You Know?”

  Christiane Ndedi Essombe
  Identity and Belonging

• Parents' Views on Testing a Plurilingual Digital Platform in the Classroom and at Home

  Josée Charette, Catherine Gosselin Lavoie
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• Digital Sovereignty and Cultural Competence in Global Platform Governance

  Réka Brigitta Szaniszló
  Community Diversity and Governance

• Intersecting LGBTQI Language Educator Identity Negotiation, Experience Navigation, and Institutional Heteroprofessionalism

  Mehmet Sahin
  Identity and Belonging

• Beyond Islamic Schools

  Narmeen Ramadan
  Identity and Belonging

• Design and Pilot Test of an Implicit Bias Mitigation Curriculum for Medical Clinicians

  Benjamin Reese, Jr.
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• The Prevalence of Bullying among Children at School

  Dulce Maria Aparicio, María Azucena Caro Dueñas, Elvira Martinez Salomon, Ambar Varela
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• The Original Sins of Nation Building

  Magdaleno Manzanárez, Ambar Varela, Julieta Altamirano-Crosby
  Identity and Belonging

• “I Am Because We Are”

  Gabriel Ayayia, Onosedeba Mary Ayayia
  2026 Special Focus—The Social Impacts of Geopolitics: Interventions to Strengthen Humanity

• Aligning Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Organizational Strategy - Lessons from Global Technology Firms

  Parish Jefferson
  Organizational Diversity

• Care, Distance, and Citizenship

  Ritsuko Kurita
  Identity and Belonging

• Teaching Practice in Multi-grade Schools in a Context of Diversity

  María Azucena Caro Dueñas, Ambar Varela
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• Evolution of Diverse Food Gifting Traditions and How They Reflect and Reveal Cultural Values

  Constance Kirker
  Identity and Belonging

• #BlackLivesMatter Arts

  antonio c. cuyler, ph.d.
  2026 Special Focus—The Social Impacts of Geopolitics: Interventions to Strengthen Humanity

• Erendira

  Rose Borunda
  Identity and Belonging

• Beyond the Checkbox

  Christopher Zraunig
  Organizational Diversity

• Migrant (m)Othering of Multicultural Family Services in South Korea

  Eunjung Lee
  Identity and Belonging

• Sustainability and Culture

  Francisca Listopad
  2026 Special Focus—The Social Impacts of Geopolitics: Interventions to Strengthen Humanity

• Assessing the Impact of the Dobbs Abortion Ruling on Women and Low-Income Populations

  Haco Hoang
  Community Diversity and Governance

• Interreligious Dialogue and Social Cohesion

  Triyanto Triyanto
  Community Diversity and Governance

• Transformative Effects of Storytelling for Graduate Students

  Zalphia Wilson Hill
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• Racial Representation in a Faculty Cluster Hire

  Terresa Hardaway, Mia Riza
  Organizational Diversity

• The Importance of Transgender History Social Work Education to Stop Trans Erasure

  Satara Charlson
  2026 Special Focus—The Social Impacts of Geopolitics: Interventions to Strengthen Humanity

• Consensus Decision-Making Models and Approaches - a Realist Review for Higher Education

  Ulises Charles Rodriguez, Matthew Wildcat, Malinda S. Smith, Pamela Roach, Aleem Bharwani, Diane Lorenzetti, Lorian Hardcastle, Suha Damag, Jennifer Markides
  Organizational Diversity

• Beyond Inclusion Fatigue

  Anthony Manuel Cruz Pantojas
  Organizational Diversity

• Women Who Love Women

  Gustavo Hart Da Rosa, Patrícia Martins Fagundes Cabral
  Organizational Diversity

• The Other Mexico - Afrodescendants, Cultural Resilience, and the Struggle for Visibility

  Julieta Altamirano-Crosby, Ambar Varela, Magdaleno Manzanárez
  Identity and Belonging

• Korean Cuisine as a Mode of Urban Belonging in Santiago-Chile

  Martina Cayul
  Identity and Belonging

• Artificial Intelligence, Project Management, and Governance Transformation

  Maria Elena Sanchez Zambrano
  2026 Special Focus—The Social Impacts of Geopolitics: Interventions to Strengthen Humanity

• Montreal Cégeps and Forensic Architecture Methodologies

  Jennifer Angela Lopes
  2026 Special Focus—The Social Impacts of Geopolitics: Interventions to Strengthen Humanity

• Beyond the Margins - Black Women’s Lived Experiences of Psychological Safety in Legal Workplaces

  Chanel Bradden
  Identity and Belonging

• Plurilingual Picture Books Between School and Home

  Catherine Gosselin Lavoie, Josée Charette
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• [It’s] Always Better When Something Is Organic

  Adia Wingfield
  Organizational Diversity

• Party Organisations for Closing Diversity Gaps?

  Maritta Soininen
  Community Diversity and Governance

• Urban Patterns, Social Dynamics and Architectural Identity in Benin City

  Timothy 'Seyi Odeyale
  2026 Special Focus—The Social Impacts of Geopolitics: Interventions to Strengthen Humanity

• Architects of Resilience - a Narrative Framework for Interconnected Parenting, Education, and Leadership

  Allison Blair Snyder
  Identity and Belonging

• Embodied Memories and Feminist Praxis

  Gladys Kalichini
  Identity and Belonging

• Autobiography in the Making

  Sidonia Alenuma
  Identity and Belonging

• Taking It to The Streets

  Jeffry Will
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• Navigating Credentialing Hurdles

  Ayodeji Osiname
  Organizational Diversity

• Do Increases in RIO’s Authority in Africa vis-à-vis Their Member States Improve These Members’ Attractiveness for Foreign Direct Investment?

  Svet Derderyan
  Community Diversity and Governance

• Dual-Lens Framework for Equity-Centered Education

  Zamzam Dini, Miguel Quinones
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• Pedagogics of Responsible Relation

  Justin Jiménez
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• Supported Decision Making and Shared Decision Making in Mental Health Counseling for Adult Patients with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

  Mang Yip
  Identity and Belonging

• Moving the Socratic Method Online

  Carol Strong
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• Digital Legal Access and the Politics of Inclusion

  Joanna Osiejewicz
  Community Diversity and Governance

• America’s Democratic Experiment

  La Shonda Campbell
  2026 Special Focus—The Social Impacts of Geopolitics: Interventions to Strengthen Humanity

• Pan-Indianism - the Unintended Consequences of the Forced Indian Boarding School Experiment in USA and Canada

  Laurence Armand French
  Identity and Belonging

• Reimagined Voices in the Crucible of Diversity - Media, Identity, and Resilience in Post-Conflict Cameroon

  Afutendem Lucas Nkwetta, Carlous Muluh Nkwetisama
  Identity and Belonging

• Between the Guarantee of the Right to Education and Cultural Domination - On the Challenges Indigenous Peoples Face in Accessing Education

  Elvira Martinez Salomon, Ambar Varela
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• Engagement, Deception, Ambivalence, and Conformism:

  Cindy Rauth
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• Cultural Symbols

  Essien Oku Essien, Awni Kalkat, Sonika Lamichhane
  Identity and Belonging

• Institutional Isomorphisms as Mechanisms of Change in Diversity Management

  Elwira Gross-Gniot
  Organizational Diversity

• Creating Structures of Care for Equity-Seeking Higher Education Reformers

  Jen Westmoreland
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• The Ticket - How a Community Partnership Created a College Going Culture among First-Generation Students

  Gilberto Mireles
  Organizational Diversity

• Equity Policy as Non-Performative

  Goli Rezai-Rashti, Shirin Abdmolaei
  Organizational Diversity

• Diversity and Inclusion in Dance and the Child international (daCi)

  Jeff Meiners, Vesna Geršak
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

Workshop Presentation

• Culture and Perspectives on Sexual Assault Policy

  KelleyAnne Malinen
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• The Courage to Converse

  Karen Mighty
  Organizational Diversity

• From Individual Voice to Collective Action

  Sinela Jurkova
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• Arts-Based Pedagogies as Catalysts for Critical Thinking, Empathy, and Reflection

  Katherine Soule
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• Intercultural Rhetoric in Practice

  Fayyaz Vellani, Kate Kramer
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• Constellations

  Dawn Wink
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• From Global Insights to Local Action

  Girija Nagaswami, Thandi Gumbi
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• Mentoring as Policy

  Kimberly Colclough
  Organizational Diversity

• Systemic Reconciliation of Lack of Representation in Educational Settings

  Araceli Feliz, Rose Borunda
  Education and Learning Worlds of Differences

• From Policy to Practice

  Daniel Esparza
  Community Diversity and Governance

• Driving Leadership Commitment to Build Brave and Safe Spaces.

  Gerardo Gauthier Zayas, Ed.D.
  Identity and Belonging

• AI and Digital Diversity - Building Inclusive Narratives on Social Media

  Raquel Camargo
  Identity and Belonging

• The Way of Befriending

  Parfait Bassalé
  Identity and Belonging

Poster Session

• Navigating Identity in the Workplace: An Examination of Stereotype Experiences Across Generational and Social Groups

  Elizabeth Candello
  Organizational Diversity

Innovation Case Studies

• Re-Framing Resilience

  Maria Mackinney
  Identity and Belonging

• Beyond Representation

  Dwayne Dixon
  Organizational Diversity