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Parker Palmer (especially Let Your Life Speak and Hidden Wholeness) adrienne maree brown (especially Emergent Strategy and Holding Change) Alexis Pauline Gumbs (especially Undrowned) Michelle Fine (especially “Critical Civic Research” in Civic Provocations) Curtis Ogden with the Interaction Institute for Social Change

My dissertation director once said to my father-in-law: “You know what Anna’s problem is? She’s part academic, part administrator, and part activist.” Dad said “Yep. But why is that a problem?” I’ve spent my whole career, even my whole life, following my nose. Like the entomologist in Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Prodigal Summer, I don’t focusContinue reading “Who I am”

This concept came from Curtis Ogden and the team at the Interaction Institute for Social Change…and I use it every chance I get.

This question was a gift from Seth Pollock of Monterey State, many years ago at an Imagining America preconference session on values-engaged assessment. I use it as a way to expand the concept of vocation, to ask not only: what do you love? but why does your chosen field matter in a bigger sense? AndContinue reading “What is the public purpose of your discipline?”