International Educators of Illinois is dedicated to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice within the field of International Education and amplifying voices that are too often unheard or dismissed. We believe that international education is inextricably tied to systems of oppression. Therefore, as international educators, we have a responsibility to engage in social justice work. As an organization, IEI is committed to combatting systemic oppression and discrimination in its many forms.

BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT

International Education

• International educators must lead on anti-racist education blog post by Harvey Charles and Darla Deardoff, Times Higher Education
• International education perpetuates structural racism and anti-racism is the solution blog post by Nunana Nyomi, Council of International Schools
• Black History Month Resource Guide for Educators and Families

Education Abroad 

• Confronting Systemic Racism As International Educators from Diversity Abroad
• Casual Racism in Travel and her entire Traveling While Black section by Oneika the Traveler
• Airbnb while Black: How to avoid racism while traveling by Kristina Byas
  
• Travel Noire A digital media company serving millennials of the African Diaspora
• URepAbroad A community to empower, inspire, and support underrepresented leaders in increasing their global awareness, traveling abroad, and working in international education
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Education Abroad: A 2020 Perspective by Michelle Tolan Tomasi, published in NAFSA International Educator
• An Antiracist Framework for Education Abroad by Eduardo Contreras, EdD, Maraina Montgomery, MEd, and Hernando Sevilla-Garcia in NAFSA International Educator

Intensive English Programs 

• TESOL Statement on Racial Injustice and Inequality
• Teaching About Race, Racism, and Police Violence list of resources from Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center 
• Unlearning Racism: Resources for Teaching Anti-Racism from ThoughtCo

International Students & Scholars 

• International Students’ Perceptions of Race and Socio-Economic Status in an American Higher Education Landscape research by Zachary Ritter 
• Violence, Racism in U.S. Worry Foreign Students by VOA Student Union
• How International Students See the Protests by Open Campus Media
• Race, Racism, and International Students in the U.S. by Yung-Hwa Anna Chow
• International Students and Experiences with Race in the United States by Bryce Loo, WES WENR
• Navigating the U.S. Cultural Climate – Equipping international students to better understand racism, identity, privilege, and other pertinent issues. Examples of programming on this topic at a few institutions
• Five Black Voices on the Importance of Discussing Racism with International Students, NAFSA International Educator

Intercultural Development

• Black Lives Matter & Intercultural Development in Higher Education blog post by Tara Harvey, True North Intercultural