Dwi Yuliantoro earned his MA and PhD in Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy from Michigan State University (MSU). His area of interest includes: teacher learning and professional development, global/international education, and community engagement through education partnership. He is now finishing his dissertation on how different discourses of national identity in contemporary Indonesia affect education in the country. Dwi was a Fulbright scholar 2006-2008 at MSU for his MA in Curriculum and Teaching. Since August 2008 until May 2013, Dwi worked with Dr. Margo Glew to conceptualize and develop the Global Educators Cohort Program (GECP). He is co-founder of Global Initiative Forum for Future Teachers (GIFT)- a learning community modeled after LATTICE to help GECP students learn and embrace the world’s diversity and its various issues related to education in an informal setting. Dwi received the 2010 Homer Higbee International Education award for his outstanding contribution in promoting cross-cultural understanding at MSU. He also received summer research fellowship in 2011 and was part of the Fellowship to Enhance Global Understanding to Vietnam in the same year. In Summer 2013, Dwi served as graduate coordinator for the Fellowship to Enhance Global Understanding and took twelve doctoral students from MSU college of education to Indonesia. Until 2014, Dwi worked at the Office of International Studies in Education (OISE) at MSU responsible for developing the office's website and internationalizing the office through various programs and activities that involves both USA and international students. Dwi recently work as head of the international program at the graduate school of YSU responsible for developing the graduate school through various programs and activities that involves both faculty and students.