1. Margo Okazawa-Rey was core faculty in the Doctoral Program of the School of Human and Organization Development at the Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California.
12 Facts About Margo Okazawa-Rey
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From 1974 to 1982, Margo Okazawa-Rey worked as social worker in Dorchester and Roxbury, Massachusetts, and co-founded CARE.
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Margo Okazawa-Rey held the Jane Watson Irwin Chair at Hamilton College from 1999 to 2001, then returned in 2014 to 2016 as the Elihu Root Chair in Women's Studies.
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From 2002 to 2005, Margo Okazawa-Rey worked as the director of Mills College's Women's Leadership Institute, a position which no longer exists.
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Margo Okazawa-Rey then returned to Mills College from 2010 to 2011 to take hold of the Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership, returning in 2018 to take on the two year position .
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In 1994, Margo Okazawa-Rey received a Fulbright Program in South Korea, citing an interest in interminority racism between Korean and African Americans.
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Margo Okazawa-Rey made a connection between the US military to race and gender relations both abroad and domestically.
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Margo Okazawa-Rey began and spent much of her career exploring both this and the interconnections between militarism and the globalization of the economy.
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Margo Okazawa-Rey has a long-standing relationship to international social justice work as she sits on the international board of NGO's: PeaceWomen Across the Globe, and Du Re Bang ; after having worked for three years as the Feminist Research Consultant at the Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling in Ramallah, Palestine.
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Margo Okazawa-Rey took part in co-principal investigations with Amina Mama, Rose Mensah-Kutin, and other women over the militarized and post-conflict areas of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, and Nigeria, where they explored the role of feminist research in activism, policy change, and women's empowerment.
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Margo Okazawa-Rey has spoken at Yale University, with students and alumni of Brown University, and many others to share the knowledge she has learned through her research.
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Margo Okazawa-Rey was one of the 100+ Black scholars and academics who opined their support for Bernie Sanders during the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.