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30 November
Dr Erin Robinson is the Middle School principal, DEI Coordinator, United World College Southeast Asia, Singapore. She is deeply appreciative of the opportunities to grow up in diverse environments as a Third Culture Kid (TCK). From an early age, Erin came to experience the significance of compassion, perspective taking, and developing a sense of relatedness with others who are different from yourself. This evolved into a passion for pursuing intercultural competence, social justice, equity, inclusion, and peace. Erin currently serves as middle school principal and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) co-lead at United World College of Southeast Asia. She holds a PhD in educational leadership and her doctoral work focused on cultural competency in education with additional research interests in student voice, student engagement, and outdoor education. Throughout her career, Erin has sought opportunities to support students, staff, and parents in further developing intercultural understanding and developing equitable and inclusive school environments. With fifteen years’ experience in DEI across the US and Asia, Erin also enjoys consulting with schools and providing professional development in DEI, anti-bias recruitment, cultural competency, inclusive leadership, and culturally responsive pedagogy.
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30 November
Dr Eleanor Parker leads planning and projects in the University of Bath’s student-facing Skills Centre in the UK. She has worked on a variety of diversity and equity initiatives, in both academic faculty and professional support roles in UK Higher Education. This has included leading on inclusive curriculum at the University of Bath, being an anti-harassment, inclusion and implicit bias trainer at both Bath and the University of Oxford, and as Director of the fair and equitable admissions staff development programme at the University of Oxford. She believes strongly in the link between equity initiatives and wellbeing and won the 2017 University of Oxford Students' Union Teaching Award for Outstanding Pastoral Support, nominated by her students. Eleanor has collaborated with CIS on projects related to student transition to Higher Education and anti-racist and equity practices. She has a first-class BA (Hons), Masters and doctorate in modern languages from the University of Oxford in the UK.
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1 December
Judith King-Calnek, PhD has been a member of the UNIS community since 1994. During that time, Judith has served as teacher (TH anthropology, IB theory of knowledge, history, and MS humanities), head of department (humanities), president of staff association, and a UNIS parent. Judith became the school’s first Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in 2020.
Judith holds a PhD in comparative education and anthropology from Teachers College Columbia University, two master’s degrees (curriculum and teaching; anthropology and education) from the same institution, and a BA from Pomona College. She has taught at Manhattanville College, in Brazil, and has conducted extensive research in Brazil and the US on the intersection(s) of race/colour, education and citizenship. Judith is also an IB examiner for social and cultural anthropology. Prior to UNIS, Judith was part of a consulting team managing a workforce initiative with an emphasis on diversity in the workplace at a manufacturing company in Connecticut.
Additionally, Judith has worked for more than 30 years as a radio programmer and producer of Brazilian music and jazz, for which she has received numerous commendations.
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1 December
Derek Brinkley, Assistance vice president, Undergraduate Admissions, Columbia College, Chicago. Hailing from Columbus, Ohio, Derek began his career in higher education at Mount St Joseph University in Cincinnati, Ohio as Admissions Counselor. After a year at the Mount, he was fortunate to return to his alma mater, Xavier University, to assume the role of Coordinator of Multicultural Recruitment and Assistant Director of Admissions where we spent four years. An opportunity to move to Chicago landed in his lap in 2014 and he began working for Loyola University Chicago as the Associate Director of Multicultural Admissions. In this role, Derek helped launch Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago—a two-year program for low-income, first-generation college students enabling them to obtain an Associate's degree debt-free. His work at Arrupe caught the eye of Columbia College Chicago, and he was hired as the Senior Director of Undergraduate Admissions in January 2017. His work at Columbia, now serving as Assistant Vice President, he has lead to two of the largest freshman classes in nearly a decade, while also being two of the most academically talented and diverse classes in the college's history.
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30 November and 1 December
Eeqbal Hassim, Associate Professor, is an education consultant specializing in intercultural education, international education, and the development of general capabilities. He is also an Honorary Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE), The University of Melbourne. Eeqbal has worked extensively with education providers, systems and networks, both nationally and internationally, across a range of different curricula. He is an Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)® Qualified Administrator and has collaborated with the CIS on intercultural learning and global citizenship projects. He holds a BA with First-Class Honours and a PhD from The University of Melbourne.
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