For emerging intercultural scholars and young transnational researchers, undertaking a collective writing project has enormous implications for their sense of academic identity, teaching and research competencies, and future academic careers. In comparative and international education (CIE) research, since each transnational researcher represents different subjectivities, including their national origins, social representations, and cultural practices, it can be difficult to view their insider and outsider statuses and minimize potential biases toward their research subjects and objects in various cross-cultural and multicultural contexts. From these perspectives, Benjamin H. Nam will give a presentation about five individuals’ educational journeys from the local to the global and how they muse the meanings of intercultural communication and global citizenship education, and imagine the future of comparative and international education. Therefore, this dialogue will cover intercultural learning experiences from Chinese, American, Finnish, Vietnamese, and Korean perspectives.