Julia Morgan was an American architect and engineer. She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career. She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon,California.
Anna Julia Cooper was an American author,educator,sociologist,speaker,Black liberation activist,Black feminist leader,and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history.
Siobhan Brooks is an African-American lesbian feminist sociologist known for her work with African-American women sex workers. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in women's studies from San Francisco State University,and a Doctor of Philosophy in sociology from New School University in New York City. She is currently Professor of African-American studies at California State University,Fullerton.
The feminist school of criminology is a school of criminology developed in the late 1960s and into the 1970s as a reaction to the general disregard and discrimination of women in the traditional study of crime. It is the view of the feminist school of criminology that a majority of criminological theories were developed through studies on male subjects and focused on male criminality,and that criminologists often would "add women and stir" rather than develop separate theories on female criminality.
The University of San Francisco (USF) is a private Jesuit university in San Francisco,California. The university's main campus is located on a 55-acre (22 ha) setting between the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park. The main campus is nicknamed "The Hilltop" and is split into two sections within a block of each other. Part of the main campus is located on Lone Mountain,one of San Francisco's major geographical features. Its close historical ties with the City and County of San Francisco are reflected in the university's traditional motto,Pro Urbe et Universitate.
The Asian American Movement was a sociopolitical movement in which the widespread grassroots efforts of Asian Americans effected racial,social and political change in the U.S.,reaching its peak in the late 1960s to mid-1970s. During this period Asian Americans promoted anti-war and anti-imperialist activism,directly opposing what was viewed as an unjust Vietnam war. The American Asian Movement (AAM) differs from previous Asian American activism due to its emphasis on Pan-Asianism and its solidarity with U.S. and international Third World movements such as the Third World Liberation Front.
Amy Sueyoshi is the provost of San Francisco State University. Sueyoshi is a trained historian specializing in sexuality,gender,and race. Her publications and lectures focus on issues regarding race and sexuality such as cross-dressing,pornography,and marriage equality.
Multiracial feminist theory refers to scholarship written by women of color (WOC) that became prominent during the second-wave feminist movement. This body of scholarship "does not offer a singular or unified feminism but a body of knowledge situating women and men in multiple systems of domination."
Rev. Trinity Ordoña is a lesbian Filipino-American college teacher,activist,community organizer,and ordained minister currently residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is notable for her grassroots work on intersectional social justice. Her activism includes issues of voice and visibility for Asian/Pacific gay,lesbian,bisexual,transgender and queer individuals and their families,Lesbians of color,and survivors of sexual abuse. Her works include her dissertation Coming Out Together:an ethnohistory of the Asian and Pacific Islander queer women's and transgendered people's movement of San Francisco, as well as various interviews and articles published in anthologies like Filipino Americans:Transformation and Identity and Asian/Pacific Islander American Women:A Historical Anthology. She co-founded Asian and Pacific Islander Family Pride (APIFP),which "[sustains] support networks for API families with members who are LGBTQ," founded Healing for Change,"a CCSF student organization that sponsors campus-community healing events directed to survivors of violence and abuse," and is currently an instructor in the Lesbian,Gay,Bisexual and Transgender Studies Department at City College of San Francisco.
Joanne Barker became a faculty member within the American Indian Studies Department at San Francisco State University,in 2003. Much of her work focuses on indigenous feminism and the sovereignty and self determination of indigenous peoples. Her work takes a transnational approach,making connections between and across the borders of countries. Barker makes historical and scholarly connections between the oppression and resistance of marginalized communities. An example of this transnational approach can be seen by the work that Barker has done to show connections in the struggles of Palestinians in Israel and indigenous communities in the United States.
Margo Okazawa-Rey,is an American professor emerita,educator,writer,and social justice activist,who is most known as a founding member of the Combahee River Collective,and for her transnational feminist advocacy.
White defensiveness is the defensive response by white people to discussions of societal discrimination,structural racism,and white privilege. The term has been applied to characterize the responses of white people to portrayals of the Atlantic slave trade and European colonization,or scholarship on the legacy of those systems in modern society. Academics and historians have identified multiple forms of white defensiveness,including white denial,white diversion,and white fragility,the last of which was popularized by scholar Robin DiAngelo.
Rachel Renee Hardeman is an American public health academic who is associate professor of Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She holds the inaugural Blue Cross Endowed Professorship in Health and Racial Equity. Her research considers how racism impacts health outcomes,particularly for the maternal health of African-Americans.
John Hall Elliott was an American biblical scholar and professor emeritus of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco. A founding member of the Context Group,his scholarship and teaching examine the Bible through interdisciplinary,cross-cultural and ecumenical lenses.
Black Womantalk was a British publishing cooperative of women of African and Asian descent founded in 1983.
Melinda Beth Coker Micco was an American filmmaker,scholar,activist,and educator. She was a professor of ethnic studies at Mills College,and the first Native American woman to earn tenure at Mills.
Lynn Mahoney is an American university president,author,and social historian. Mahoney is the president of San Francisco State University (SFSU) since July 2019,and is the first woman to hold this role. Her scholarly work has focused on United States history,women's history,feminism,race studies,and ethnicity. She is the author of Elizabeth Stoddard and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture;a book about novelist and poet Elizabeth Stoddard.
Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi is a Palestinian-born American scholar,activist,educator,editor,and an academic director. She is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies,Race and Resistance Studies,and the founding Director of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Education described her as "a controversial figure in an already controversial field".
Petrona Lashley was a British Labour politician and community activist. She was Liverpool's first black Deputy Lord Mayor,and one of its earliest black councillors.
