Dana Wright Email & Phone Number

Oakland, Ca, Us

Oakland, Ca

Dana Wright is the author of Active Learning: Social Justice Education and Participatory Action Research. Her recently published co-edited book is entitled Engaging Youth in Critical Arts Pedagogies and Creative Research for Social Justice: Opportunities and Challenges of Arts-based Work and Research with Young People. Wright is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including the Health Disparities Research LRP award from the National Institutes of Health and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. She is Professor of Education at Mills College at Northeastern University. Her scholarship focuses on participatory action research (PAR), critical arts pedagogies, educational leadership, critical youth studies and policy.