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Areas of expertise: Activism, African Diaspora, Agroecology and Agriculture, Climate Change, Community Studies, Colonialism, Community-based Research, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Environmental Justice, Environmental Studies, Indigenous Peoples, International Development, Latin American and Latino Studies, Marxism, Social Justice, Sustainability, Tropical Forest


Biography, Education and Training

Dr. Juli Hazlewood is an Intercultural Geographer and activist, researcher, writer, and educator from Indiana (USA). She is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Roots & Routes IC, an organization dedicated to facilitating the sharing of cultural ways of knowing and compassion between diverse cultures en route to responsibly stewarding a flourishing living world.  For over two decades she has lived and walked with the Chachi, Awá, and Afro-descendant communities of Ecuador’s Pacific Northwes... more »

Michael A. McCarthy

Michael A. McCarthy

Director of Community Studies

Sociology Department

Areas of expertise: Social Theory, Political Theory, Capitalism, Democracy, Community Studies, Class, Personal and Social Identities, Labor and Social Movements, Finance


Biography, Education and Training

2021-23, Berggruen Institute Research Fellow, University of Southern California   2014, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany   2013 PhD Sociology, New York University   2005 BA Sociology (Political Science minor), University of California, Los Angeles   2003 AA Sociology, Fullerton College  

Ami Mills

Ami Mills

Lecturer, Building An Inner Sanctuary

Oakes College

Areas of expertise: Health and Wellness, Community Studies, Leadership, Psychology, Activism, Asian Studies, Social Justice, Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Mass Media


Biography, Education and Training

Ami Chen Mills-Naim (also, Ami Chen Mills), she/her/they is author of State of Mind in the Classroom, The Spark Inside and CIA Off Campus. She has been an educator for 30 years in community settings, in schools and at universities, with all age groups, and in correctional and probation settings for youth and adults. She is an instructor and coach on resilience, innate mental health and healing for private individuals, and educators, as well as for governmental and non-profit institutions. Ami ha... more »

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