Biography
Jennifer Yphantides is a tenure-track faculty member in the department of International Liberal Arts at Soka University in Tokyo, Japan. She has been working in the field of education since 1993 and has taught in North America, Europe, The Middle East, and Asia. Additionally, she has worked on government-funded peace projects affiliated with the University of Haifa, Israel which focused on the promotion of tolerance of ethnic and religious diversity in the region and on the inclusion of persons with disabilities in mainstream classrooms. She has a BA in History from McGill University, an MA in War Studies from King's College, London, and an MA TESOL from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an EdD in Organizational Leadership from Northeastern University. Her current research interests are diversity and inclusion of neurologically diverse students in the English Foreign Language classroom.
Panel Presentation (2020) | Embracing Difference
