Conference Closing Plenary
Women as Intercultural Leaders:
Collaboration at the Crossroads
April 28, 11:00 a.m.
Carroll Auditorium
"Pressing Demands of Future Women
Intercultural Leaders"
The closing plenary will showcase the strength of CWIL's International Advisory Board, and will summarize and reflect on conversations at the conference. The plenary will be moderated by a leader in American higher education, Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Vice President at the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and include Marlene Johnson, CEO of NAFSA: the Association of International Educators; Evelyn Hu DeHart, Director of the Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity at Brown University; Johnella Butler, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Spelman College; and Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas.
Caryn McTighe Musil
Caryn McTighe Musil received her B.A. from Duke University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University. Before moving into national level administrative work in higher education, she was a faculty member for eighteen years. She is currently Vice President of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global at the Association of American Colleges and Universities where she focuses on women's issues and diversity in higher education. She is also currently Project Director for Liberal Education and Global Citizenship: The Arts of Democracy, funded by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) to work with institutions who want to incorporate global issues and social responsibility into the major. Caryn has been an educational consultant and outside evaluator at numerous colleges and universities, with a special interest in faculty and curriculum development, and has served as a reviewer and outside evaluator for FIPSE, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Ford Foundation. A frequent keynote speaker at various national conferences, Caryn has been writing, teaching, and speaking on women, gender, and diversity throughout her career.
Marlene Johnson
Marlene Johnson is the Executive Director and CEO of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, the world’s largest membership organization of professionals in the field of international education exchange. Under her leadership, NAFSA has emerged as the leading advocate for international education and exchange during a period of growth in the field as well as increasing challenges to access to U.S. educational opportunities for the vast numbers of international students and scholars seeking to study in the United States. An entrepreneur and administrator, Ms. Johnson has three decades of leadership experience in government, business, and nonprofit management. As Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota from 1983 to 1991, she was an outspoken advocate of international educational exchange at the secondary and post secondary levels. Johnson’s commitment to international education issues has led to her service on the Board of Alliance for International Educational and Cultural Exchange. She is also a former Board member of AFS-USA, AFS Intercultural Programs, the World Press Institute, and the National Association of Women Business Owners. Currently, she also serves on the Board of the Communications Consortium Media Center in Washington, D.C.
Evelyn Hu DeHart
Evelyn Hu DeHart is Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) at Brown University. She joined Brown from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she was Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America. She has also taught at the City University of New York system, New York University, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Arizona, and the University of Michigan, as well as lectured at universities and research institutes in Mexico, Peru, Cuba, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. Evelyn often describes herself as a multicultural person who speaks several languages (including English, Chinese, French, and Spanish) and moves easily among several cultures. Her professional life has focused on what Cuban historian Juan Perez de la Riva calls "historia de la gente sin historia." She was born in China and immigrated to the United States with her parents when she was twelve. As an undergraduate at Stanford University, she studied in Brazil on an exchange program. She became fascinated with Latin America and that interest eventually led her to a Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1988 she left the City University of New York to become the CSREA Director at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has written two books on the Yaqui Indians and is now engaged in a large research project on the Asian diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Johnella Butler
Johnnella Butler, currently Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Spelman College, is recognized for her work in ethnic studies, women’s studies, curriculum change, and development. She is responsible for overseeing academic departments and programs, formulating educational policies, and recruiting and orienting faculty. Prior to that she was an Associate Dean and Associate Vice Provost in the Graduate School at the University of Washington as well as Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Smith College. A noted scholar specializing in African American literature, Butler is considered one of the pioneers in diversity and curriculum transformation, and a leader in bringing together the content of ethnic studies and women’s studies. An author and former concert soprano, the Virginia native attended the College of Our Lady of the Elms in Chicopee, Mass., where she earned a bachelor’s degree in English Literature with a minor in Spanish American Literature in 1968; from there she earned a master of arts in Teaching at the Johns Hopkins University in 1969. She later was awarded her doctorate in Afro-American Literature and Multicultural Studies in 1979 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Butler was one of the three editors for the first-ever Encyclopedia of American Studies. She is also a contributor and editor of Color-Line to Borderlands: the Matrix of American Ethnic Studies, and Transforming the Curriculum: Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies. An internationally recognized expert on ethnic studies, Dr. Butler is the Director of a Ford Foundation project to write a book defining ethnic studies and its role in higher education.
Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson
In the nation’s capital, Eddie Bernice Johnson is widely known as the “Gentlewoman from Texas.” She is now in her seventh term representing the citizens of the 30th Congressional District of Texas. Congresswoman Johnson is the ranking Democratic member of the House Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Research, and Democratic Deputy Whip. As the highest ranking Texan on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, she has secured millions of dollars for Texas development, which has helped Dallas-Fort Worth become one of the fastest growing business areas in the country. Congresswoman Johnson was the first African American woman to ever win elected public office in Dallas. In 1972, she began her public career when she was elected to the Texas House of Representatives. She chaired the Labor Committee, becoming the first woman in Texas history to lead a major Texas House committee. Congresswoman Johnson began her career as a nurse. She obtained her nursing preparation from Saint Mary's College and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Texas Christian University. She received a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Southern Methodist University. A businesswoman, Congresswoman Johnson has enjoyed a diverse career, including leadership in the private sector as founder of Eddie Bernice Johnson and Associates, a real estate business. She was also a founding member of the Board of Directors of Sunbelt National Bank.
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