2025 Global Engagement Conference

Innovation Across Borders

May 21, 2025 | William Philip Hall | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

OPEN TO ALL | REGISTRATION IS FREE | SEATS ARE LIMITED

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Keynote Speaker - Ciara O'Connell, PhD

(Principal Officer, Criminal Policy, Ireland Department of Justice | Global Honors ‘09)

Dr. O'Connell is an expert in international human rights law, with degrees from the University of Sussex, UK (PhD, 2017), the Irish Centre for Human Rights (LLM, 2010) and University of Washington-Tacoma (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences - Global Honors, with a Minor in Human Rights, 2009).

O'Connell has held numerous academic positions, including at the Centre for Human Rights in South Africa (University of Pretoria) and Australian National University, and she is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin Ireland. She has published widely on a variety of human rights-related areas, such as deprivation of liberty and gender and human rights, and has carried out field research in countries across Latin America, Africa and Europe.

Ciara O'Connell

OPENING SPEAKERS

Sheila Edwards Lange

Dr. Sheila Edwards Lange

Chancellor

Holly Bamford Hunt

Holly Bamford Hunt

Director, The Bamford Foundation

Divya McMillin

Dr. Divya McMillin

Associate Vice Chancellor, Innovation and Global Engagement

Phillip Shekleton

Phillip Shekleton

Managing Director, UW Center for Global Studies

Conference Schedule

Time Event
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM COFFEE AND NETWORKING
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM WELCOME AND KEYNOTE
Dr. Danica Miller, Associate Professor | Welcome to the Land of the Puyallup People
Dr. Sheila Edwards Lange, Chancellor
Holly Bamford Hunt, Director, The Bamford Foundation
Dr. Divya McMillin, Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Global Engagement

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ciara O'Connell, Principal Officer, Criminal Policy, Ireland Department of Justice
"Global Rights, Local Lives: Prioritizing People for Meaningful Change"
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM Bamford Fellow in Global Engagement
Whitney Lopez, “Taxation Policies, Human Rights, & Gender Inequality: Connections Between the U.S. & Brazil”, Global Honors | Faculty Adviser: Dr. Margaret Griesse
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS
  • Alex Evans – “Barriers to Healthcare for Transgender People”, Global Honors | Faculty Adviser: Dr. Jarrod Call
  • Alison M. Barlow – “Market Women in Ghana”, Faculty Adviser: Dr. Cynthia Howson
  • Mia Escobar – “HIV in the Asia Pacific Region”, Global Honors | Faculty Adviser: Dr. Anna Groat Carmona
  • Quinton Perry, Sr. – “Food Insecurity and Food Apartheid”, Global Honors | Faculty Adviser: Dr. Christine Stevens
  • Jereme Hawkins – “Migration Trends out of Africa”, Global Honors | Faculty Adviser: Dr. Vanessa de Veritch Woodside
  • “Citizen Diplomacy: Insights from Vietnam and the Palestinian West Bank” | Faculty Adviser: Dr. Ben Meiches
  • Hailey J.Y. Sato – “Ethics in Synthetic Biology”, Global Honors | Faculty Adviser: Dr. Margaret Griesse
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch and Poster Session
  • Káren Bedoya Álvarez, Primitivo Bambao, Jack Cheung, Hanifah Sen – “Increasing Student Engagement in the Global Engagement Conference”
  • Eamon Challinor – “Implications of the Third Agricultural for the Fourth”
  • Eamon Challinor – “Environmental Restoration in Aotearoa”
  • Jack Cheung – “How Prototyping Emboldens Design Thinking”
  • Anuvir Dhaliwal – “Bringing Design Thinking to Action”
  • Hugo Ennis – “IIGE GID Internships Takeaway”
  • Cathy Jackson – “Empathy and Design Thinking Process”
  • Frederick Langley – “Global Effects of U.S. Monetary Policy”
  • Franchesca Nicole Lazaro – “Cultural Memory and Feminist Archives”, UW Bothell
  • Tom McGoogan – “Design Thinking for Business Risks”
  • Elena A. Mendoza – “Gentrification Through the Lens of CPR”
  • Yesuf Mustefa – “The Journey Through the Design Process”
  • Johnny Nava – “Women’s Outcomes in South Asia”
  • Sabrina Oliveira – “Ecuador’s Government-Criminal-Corporate Hydra”, UW Bothell
  • Maria B. Villa – “Embracing Ambiguity through Design Thinking”
  • Angela Warner – “Women’s Paid Work in Pakistan”
  • Alex I. Zamora – “Health Education in Bolivia”
1:30 PM – 1:40 PM Opening Speaker: Phil Shekleton, Managing Director, UW Center for Global Studies
"The Value of Student Global Engagement in Our Times"
1:40 PM – 2:20 PM CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBALIZATION
  • Malaya Jove – “Environmental Justice in Nature-Based Solutions”, Global Honors | Faculty Adviser: Dr. Anne Taufen
  • Jennifer Huynh – “Wildfire Preparedness”, Faculty Adviser: Dr. Jaleesa Trapp
  • Ashley Peden – “Glocalization of Mickey”, Faculty Adviser: Dr. Ji-Hyun Ahn
2:20 PM – 3:30 PM INNOVATION AND DESIGN
  • Levin, Grant Lipscomb, Cynthia Mercado-Ochoa, Erandy Montes, Julian Rangel – “Siberian Solar Solutions” | Faculty Adviser: Dr. Mark A. Pagano
  • Káren Bedoya Álvarez and Melissa D. Martinez – “Healthy Coping Skills Journal” | Faculty Adviser: Dr. Jaleesa Trapp
  • Jian Azul, April Flora, Rachel Skilton, Markreno Vilaysane – “Filming Tacoma” | Faculty Adviser: Dr. Jaleesa Trapp
  • Káren Bedoya Álvarez, Alyssa Guidry, Jayda Kim, Alondra Ramirez-Perez – “Purple Locker Thrift Store” | Faculty Adviser: Dr. Emma Rose
3:30 PM – 3:40 PM Break
3:40 PM – 5:00 PM CARE AND COMMUNITY
  • David Esguerra – “Tourist Education in Hawaii and Japan” | Adviser: Liz Hunt, M.F.A.
  • On Leng (Rebecca) Leong – “Art Therapy for Trauma Recovery”, Global Honors | Faculty Adviser: Dr. Anne Taufen
  • Jane Jones – “Culture and Parenting Styles”, Global Honors | Faculty Adviser: Dr. Rachel Hershberg
  • Linda Watkins – “Scouting and Youth Wellbeing”, Global Honors | Faculty Adviser: Dr. Rachel Hershberg
  • Elena A. Mendoza – “CLT's from a U.S. Perspective” | Faculty Adviser: Dr. Jessi Quizar
  • Rayne Lyl Renney – “Value-Holding and Marginalization” | Faculty Adviser: Alif Laila Tisha, North Seattle College
5:00 PM CONFERENCE CLOSE
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