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    • July 22, 2026
    • 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
    • Zoom
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    The Spirit of Minnesota: Intercultural Lessons in Community-Building and Mutual Aid from the Frontlines

    Your Presenters:
    Basma Ibrahim DeVreis 
    and Jon DeVries

    Wednesday, July 22, 2026 @ 11:30 AM EDT

    A panel discussion from interculturalists who experienced and lived through the 2025-26 operation Metro Surge activities in Minnesota.

    Registration = FREE for current SIETAR USA Members
    in good standing 

    (Must be logged in to see the member pricing, SIETAR International members must contact SIETAR USA office for discount code and verify that you are a current member.) 

    Registration = $25 for Non Members

    About Your Presenters: 

    Basma Ibrahim DeVries (Ph. D.) is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and conducts intercultural training workshops for educational and community groups.

    Jon DeVries is a trainer and consultant specializing in Intercultural Competence, Team Building and Leadership Development.

    • November 05, 2026
    • November 07, 2026
    • Virtual

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    ROOT & REACH: Grounding Intercultural Practice While Stretching Into What’s Next What does it mean to be both anchored and in motion — to draw from the deep wells of cultural wisdom, lived experience, and hard-won practice, while remaining genuinely open to transformation, challenge, and growth? ROOT & REACH: Grounding Intercultural Practice While Stretching Into What's Next invites practitioners, educators, researchers, and community leaders to gather in a spirit of both reflection and possibility. This conference is a space to honor what sustains us — our values, our communities, our foundational frameworks — and to ask, with curiosity rather than anxiety, where our field must stretch to meet the complexity of this moment. We welcome proposals that take seriously both the stability of roots and the risk of reaching: work that is theoretically grounded and practically alive, culturally honest and forward-looking, personally meaningful and collectively relevant.



Dedicated to providing continuing professional education opportunities, the Webinar Series from SIETAR USA features leading practitioners working in key areas of intercultural and DEIB theory and practice.

The depth and diversity of the webinars is designed to grow your knowledge base and to provide a positive impact on your work in the ever-evolving professional landscape. The Webinar Series is just one example of  SIETAR USA’s commitment to support transformational growth and intercultural understanding through professional interchange with a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging and social justice.

Your participation and feedback are welcome and appreciated.



Want to present in the Webinar Series?

The SIETAR USA Webinar Team is always on the lookout for new and different presentations that will appeal to practitioners in intercultural relations, diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, social justice, and more.

Got a topic you’d like to present? Please complete the form at the link shown below. Your completed form will go to our Webinar Team for review, and they will contact you for further details and the possibility of scheduling your presentation as part of the SIETAR USA Webinar Series.

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Meet the webinar team:

Carolyn Ryffel 

Liesbeth Huysmans

Cheryl Woehr

Sandy Fowler 

Julia Gaspar-Bates

Brianna Harrison




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