Dawn Whitehead

Dawn Michele Whitehead is the vice president of the Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). Her work focuses on advancing practices and strategies to integrate global, civic, and experiential learning across curricular and co-curricular initiatives and practices that advance equitable participation in global and community-based learning for all. Whitehead has written, presented, and delivered workshops nationally and internationally on global learning, community-based learning, equity-minded experiential learning, and curricular change.

Her roles as the Institute on Engaged and Integrative Learning director, an inaugural member of the Institute for International Education's National Academy for International Education, and vice-chair of the board of directors for The Forum on Education Abroad further underscore her leadership. Prior to her current position, she served as the director of curriculum internationalization with teaching responsibilities at Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI) and as faculty director for community-based global learning programs in Costa Rica, Ghana, and Kenya. She earned a Ph.D. in Education Policy Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington, with a Concentration in African Studies and a minor in International and Comparative Education.