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Dr. Callie Watkins Liu is an intersectional and critical race scholar-activist, dedicated to research and collaborations that prioritize social justice and center the socially vulnerable. Her expertise in social movements, social policy, urban planning, global development (especially Latin America and Africa), conflict resolution and social psychology equip her to navigate between theory and lived experiences; understand social problems, and identify interventions. Dr. Watkins Liu’s work challenges power inequities and supports social justice oriented systems, structures and practices.
Dr. Watkins Liu has been active in Boston in varying capacities over the past 20 years, including community engagement and consensus building in international and Boston based community organizations. The core of her community engagement focuses on: organizational dynamics, racial justice, housing justice, social movement building, community organizing and community building. She has held Professor, teaching, lecture, consulting and mentorship positions within higher ed, social justice, race and anti-oppression spheres.
- PhD, Assets and Inequalities concentration, Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
- MA, Social Policy, Heller School of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
- MRP, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
- AB, Psychology and Romance Languages and Literature (Spanish) with Language Citation in Portuguese, Harvard College, Harvard University
The Anti-Oppressive Value of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality in Social Movement Study
The Consciousness raising classroom: Lessons in inequality and identity. In Kelty, R., and Bunder, B. (Eds.), Risk-taking in higher education