39^th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Keynote Speaker

Monday, April 28, 2025
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM (Eastern Time)

The MU Chapter of PBD at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is happy to announce and welcome Jennifer Manise as the Keynote Speaker for the Phi Beta Delta (PBD) Honor Society for International Scholars Virtual Conference 2025.

Jennifer Manise is the Executive Director of the Longview Foundation for World Affairs and International Understanding. Since it was founded in 1966, the Longview Foundation has been helping young people in the United States learn about world regions and global issues.

The Longview Foundation works to ensure that students from pre-school to high school have the opportunity to develop this crucial 21st century expertise. To that end the Longview Foundation supports: state coalitions of leaders in education, government, business and community organizations committed to improving international education for young people in their state; strategies that help future teachers learn to teach the global dimensions of their subjects and develop their students' intercultural skills; and innovative activities that address gaps in knowledge or capacity and have the potential for broad impact.

The Keynote session will help kick off our PBD 2025 Virtual conference and help us begin to engage with our conference theme: "Navigating New Realities: Supporting Global Scholars in a Changing World.”

Reminder of PBD 2025 Conference proposal submission details: Remember to submit your PBD 2025 Virtual Conference proposal via: https://tinyurl.com/PBD25Conf by Friday, March 28. The conference registration form will be open in mid-March.