Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey is Barbara Lee's Distinguished Chair in Women’s Leadership and Visiting Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and of Public Policy at Mills College in Oakland, California. She is also a Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University. Her primary areas of research and activism for the past 25 years have been militarism, armed conflict, and violence against women, examined intersectionally. Professor Okazawa-Rey serves on the International Advisory Board of Du Re Bang in Uijongbu South Korea, the International Board of Peace Women Across the Globe in Bern, Switzerland, and Board Co-chair of Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee, USA.
Her recent publications include “Nation-sizing” Coalition and Solidarity Politics for US Anti-militarist Feminists(in press); “No Freedom without Connections: Envisioning Sustainable Feminist Solidarities”(2018); Between a Rock and a Hard Place; Women, Power, and Change in Southeast Asia(2018); “Liberal Arts Colleges Partnering with Highlander Research and Education Center: Intergenerational Learning for Student Campus Activism and Personal Transformation”(2018).