Donna Maeda

Donna Maeda joined the Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship as Dean in the summer of 2017. Her scholarship draws from critical race legal studies and postcolonial theory as she examines how law shapes institutions, social structures, ideologies, and subjectivities in forming race, gender, and other forms of difference in national and transnational contexts. Maeda is also interested in connecting insights from critical university studies and critical race feminist and intersectionality theories with new ways of building collaborative practices for creating more just and liberatory spaces in higher education. She is particularly interested in transformative possibilities created through women of color discourse, collective leadership practices, and collaborative partnerships between colleges and communities beyond formal campus boundaries. Maeda holds a Ph.D. in Social Ethics from the University of Southern California; a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; and a B.A. in Music History and Literature from St. Olaf College.