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The Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation is a social justice programming and transformational learning institute established in 1999. [1]
The MISJT also hosts an on-campus student organization, MISO.
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Caroline Baillie is a materials scientist and specialist in engineering education, since 2017 the inaugural Professor of Praxis in the School of Engineering at the University of San Diego, USA.
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