Master of Arts Program

Colloquium Keynote Speaker May 2004: Margo Okazawa-Rey

Margo Okazawa-Rey. Margo is Professor of Social Work at San Francisco State University and a long-time community organizer focused on militarism, globalization, and women's rights. She is the co-author with Gwyn Kirk of Women's Lives, Multicultural Perspectives (Mayfield, 1998), a major multicultural feminist textbook used in college level women's studies courses throughout the nation, and the co-author of Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to Anti-Racist, Multicultural Curriculum and Staff Development (Network of Educators on the Americas, 1998), focused on multicultural, multi-racial education.

She was a member of the Combahee River Collective in Boston during the 1970s and one of the founders of the Afro-Asian Relations Council in Washington, D.C. Dr. Okazawa-Rey has served as Jane Watson Irwin Co-Chair in Women's Studies at Hamilton College and holds a doctorate from Harvard University's Graduate School of education. Most recently she has co-edited a special volume of The Journal of Social Justice, focused on neo-liberalism, militarism, and armed conflict. She is a founding member of the East Asia - U.S. Women's Network Against Militarism, and the Institute for Multiracial Justice in San Francisco, organized to bring communities of color together to promote progressive politics.

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