Dr. Rebecca Hodges is an anthropologist and global educator with a PhD in Cultural Anthropology and MA in Arabic, Islamic, & Near East Studies from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She studies comparative education, teacher training for a knowledge economy, and technology integration and has served as a Mellon-Sawyer Fellow, Fulbright Scholar, and cultural competence teacher trainer. She is currently an International Baccalaureate Anthropology and Theory of Knowledge teacher and Social Studies Department Chair at Lausanne Collegiate School in Memphis, Tennessee.