Nicki Gerstner is an American PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Program: Global Education Cooperation in the College of Education and research assistant in the Education, Conflict and Peace Lab at Seoul National University in Korea. Additionally, she currently works in the English Department at Seoul Cyber University.
Her research interests include global citizenship education for sustainable development, cosmopolitanism, partnerships toward peacebuilding, and decolonial practices for transformative education and pedagogies. She received her master’s of education in global studies in education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has studied in multiple countries during her academic career and has lived abroad for more than 12 years.