Dr. Jeffrey Simpson, Assistant Dean - Director of Global Partnerships at Oklahoma State University, is a NAFSA Academy 7 alumnus. He has served in several positions on the Region III Team, including Chair in 2020. He was the recipient of the NAFSA Award for Service for Oklahoma in 2017 and the Special Service to International Education for Region III in 2014. Simpson received his Ph.D. in Higher Education Leadership and Policy from Oklahoma State University. His primary research interests include the imagineering process students engage to imagine and construct study abroad experiences, the application of self-representation in narrating international experiences as well as the salience of gendered behavior when constructing experiences in international education spaces.