15:30 – 16:30 BST, 10 September 2026 ‐ 1 hour
Room: Castle 1, Crown Plaza Hotel, Ground floor
Session
✅ Included for all participants
Egalitarian dialogue and mutual collaboration are expected among higher education professionals. However, faculty and staff from different backgrounds attest to how seemingly 'civil' interactions can mask prejudice and structural and interpersonal inequalities. This session will discuss how inequalities translate into microaggressions and prejudice, and we will provide lessons on awareness raising and intercultural communicative competencies.




ALDEAS, Netherlands
Sandra Rincón is trainer, researcher and author on Global Stakeholder Engagement with Purpose. Sandra believes in building communities to promote diversity as pillar to innovate a more inclusive, sustainable, and kinder world. She authored Engaging International Alumni as Strategic Partners,(NAFSA 2021) edited Alumni Connection, (Hivebrite, 2023) hosted Brite Ideas, (2023) a podcast for advancement professionals, and founded the Holland alumni network-NL to support international students and alumni navigate the Dutch labour market. She is finalizing her PhD research at Tilburg University on the SDGs and student-alumni engagement.
As a recognized leader on international education (PIE, 2023) and consultant with +30 years of experience in the field, Sandra advises and trains professionals in governments and higher education institutions. She publishes often in professional literature on global engagement. She was senior consultant for EU Alumni initiative and director of international alumni relations at Tilburg University, Netherlands. She served as chair of the EAIE’s Alumni Relations Expert Community. Sandra currently serves as member of CASE Continental Europe Cabinet and as research committee member of ICAReAlumni. She presents annually at the CASE-EU, EAIE, ICARe-Alumni and NAFSA conferences. She is a life-time alumni member of UC Davis, USA.

Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
Sandra Guarín Tarquino is the vice president for International Affairs of Universidad del Rosario (UR). She has twenty years of experience in internationalization of higher education, international cooperation, leadership of partnerships and networks, glocal stakeholder connections, and project and grant management. She is co-founder of the Latin American Initiative for the Internationalization of Higher Education (INILAT), vice president of the Advisory Council of the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (IOHE), and chair of the NAFSA’s Latin America and Caribbean Forum, 2024. She was recognized by the Colombian Association of Universities (ASCUN) "For her committed, dedicated and generous leadership as National Coordinator of the Colombian Network for the Internationalization of Higher Education (RCI) between 2018 and 2022", and in 2024 received the RCI ASCUN Outstanding Contribution Award. She has served as consultant and lecturer in comprehensive internationalization, international cooperation, and non-state diplomacy. She holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations, a graduate degree in European Studies and a master’s degree in Management and Development Practice.
Lunex University, Luxembourg
Jessica Price is an academic and counselling psychology practitioner with more than fifteen years of experience in the development of mental health and wellbeing interventions, supporting highly diverse and multicultural groups, drawing from counselling psychology; organizational health; positive psychology and narrative therapy approaches.