Community Learning Faculty Teaching Interests

Eric Brettschneider

community building, advocacy, child welfare, the law and social welfare, parent involvement, and service integration

Maura Donnelly

adult literacy and English for speakers of other languages; writing

Kathy Engel

imagination, art and social change; communication, art, media and advocacy; building multi-racial cross-class, cross-generational organizations and campaigns; development and communications for organizations and campaigns

Esperanza Martell

human rights; anti-colonial struggles; political prisoners in the US; race, class and gender; peace/popular education; community organizing theory and practice; organizational/leadership development; team-building; conflict resolution; diversity training

David Paskin

public sector labor relations; union organizing; social history of workers, technology and tools; New York city history; labor fiction

René Francisco Poitevin

urbanism; race and ethnicity in the US; grassroots organizing; and geographical information systems (GIS)