Dr.
Bennett holds a PhD in intercultural communication from the
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; an MA in speech communication
from the University of Minnesota; and a BA in psychology and
journalism from San Francisco State University. She has also
served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Micronesia.
As an educator, Dr. Bennett created
the liberal arts program at Marylhurst College. Since 1977,
she has been providing consultation and training in intercultural
relations through Communication Perspectives. In the area
of domestic intercultural relations, she designs company-wide
programs in valuing and managing diversity for corporations,
and conducts workshops on intercultural relations for corporate
executives and managers, university faculty and administrators,
social service personnel, healthcare professionals, and others
in the public and private sectors. Dr. Bennett also designs
and conducts diversity programs for multicultural university
campuses and speaks on intercultural topics at academic and
professional conferences.
Dr. Bennett is executive director
of the Intercultural Communication Institute (ICI), which
she co-founded in 1986. ICI is a private, nonprofit educational
foundation designed to foster an awareness and appreciation
of cultural difference in the international and domestic arenas.
ICI maintains an extensive library and sponsors the annual
Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication, which draws
more than 800 faculty and participants from the U.S. and abroad
to three weeks of intensive professional development workshops.
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