Amira Ahmed is a Ph.D. Candidate in Interdisciplinary Graduate Study – Digital Arts and Humanities/ Immersive Technologies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus. Amira’s doctoral study is focused on digital heritage storytelling and its implications for global citizenship education and intercultural communication. She investigates how implementing digital storytelling experiences focusing on cultural heritage can be used as creative and practical methodologies to enhance global citizenship in higher education. Her research proposes using an educommunication approach to heritage and project-based learning to explore the potential of digital heritage storytelling as transformative cultural learning experiences in higher education. She is particularly interested in how this can be applied in higher education to foster interconnectedness, community engagement, and intercultural understanding. Her background lies in mass media and communication studies, and her previous research projects have examined the interactive affordances of virtual reality, interactive documentaries, and serious games to promote multicultural learning, human rights, and environmental literacy. Her current research interests include Digital Narratives, Global Citizenship Education, Heritage Representation and Communication, Peace, Human Rights, Intercultural Education, Immigration Studies, Virtual Reality and Narrative Transportation Effects, and User Agency and Student-Centered Learning Approaches.