Building Solidarity Across Borders as Individuals, Communities and Institutions
Proposal for Presentation
Dr. Shabnam Koirala-Azad is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of International and Multicultural Education in the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. Growing up in Nepal, she was always interested in the relationship between education and social change, especially in the context and discourse of neoliberalism and development. These interests led her to pursue a doctorate in social and cultural studies in education at UC Berkeley where she began her scholarship trajectory informed by a theoretical framework that critiques the assumptions shaping dominant understandings of education for social change. Her research spans various geographic contexts and explores concepts like transnational social change, immigration and immigrant activism, internationalization of higher education, gender and globalization and more recently, human rights education. At USF, Dr. Koirala-Azad leads the School of Education as Associate Dean for academic affairs and strategic initiative, she chairs the university’s council on diversity and inclusion and was co-founder of the first graduate program in human rights education in the United States. Dr. Koirala-Azad believes that her professional life continues to be enriched by her spirituality and her role as a mother-scholar.
Building Solidarity Across Borders as Individuals, Communities and Institutions
Dr. Shabnam Koirala-Azad is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of International and Multicultural Education in the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. Growing up in Nepal, she was always interested in the relationship between education and social change, especially in the context and discourse of neoliberalism and development. These interests led her to pursue a doctorate in social and cultural studies in education at UC Berkeley where she began her scholarship trajectory informed by a theoretical framework that critiques the assumptions shaping dominant understandings of education for social change. Her research spans various geographic contexts and explores concepts like transnational social change, immigration and immigrant activism, internationalization of higher education, gender and globalization and more recently, human rights education. At USF, Dr. Koirala-Azad leads the School of Education as Associate Dean for academic affairs and strategic initiative, she chairs the university’s council on diversity and inclusion and was co-founder of the first graduate program in human rights education in the United States. Dr. Koirala-Azad believes that her professional life continues to be enriched by her spirituality and her role as a mother-scholar.