Conference

Morning Address: Dr. Nana Osei-Kofi

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Abstract

Nana Osei-Kofi is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Iowa State University, where she directs the Social Justice Studies Certificate Program. Osei-Kofi’s research is in the areas of cultural studies in education, critical and feminist theories of education, the politics of higher education, and arts-based inquiry. Osei-Kofi has held leadership positions in the American Educational Research Association, the Association for the Study of Higher Education, and the National Women’s Studies Association. She was also a 2006 Future of Minority Studies-Mellon Fellow. As an agent of change, Osei-Kofi is deeply committed to the production of transdisciplinary knowledge that challenges discipline-oriented boundaries in order to gain new insights in service of social transformation and to the creation of learning environments that make it possible for students to gain the intellectual skills and practical knowledge necessary to collectively shape the world in which we live.