An academically trained translator/interpreter, Dr. Gregory P. Meyjes is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Kennesaw State University and President of Solidaris Intercultural Services LLC, an intercultural and international competency firm with a focus on language, religion, and race/ethnicity. As an applied sociolinguist whose research concerns attitudes, policies, and practices involving the inclusion of cultural minority groups, he has pursued a rights-based approach to social change for decades. The recipient of several post-doctoral awards including two Fulbright assignments, his current teaching focuses on intercultural competency and international conflict management. Professor Meyjes holds graduate credentials from academic institutions in Oxford, Essex, and Lancaster (UK), Heidelberg (Germany), The Hague (Netherlands), and Chapel Hill (NC). He is a world citizen who has lived in many countries and speaks, reads, and writes multiple languages with near-equal fluency. As a scholar-practitioner he has applied his decades of involvement with intercultural understanding and social justice to community-based development, training, public information, formal and non-formal education, and United-Nations sponsored global research. Recently qualified as Administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory ®, his more recent presentations include “Indigenous Conflict Resolution (2012), “Interreligious Student Leadership (keynote, 2011), “Global Responsibility and the Teaching of English” (keynote, 2010), and “Teaching Religious Diversity in Public Schools” (Chicago, 2009). Lately, he has written on “Multi-Ethnic Conflicts in U.S. Military Theatres Overseas” (2012), “African-American Cultural Competence in Health Settings” (2011), and “Exploring Intercultural Competence in Education” (2010).