Margo Okazawa-Rey

Margo Okazawa-Rey (born 26 November 1949 in Japan), is a Japanese-American professor emerita, educator, writer, and social justice activist, who is most known as a founding member of the Combahee River Collective, and for her transnational feminist advocacy.[1][2]

Margo Okazawa-Rey
Born26 November 1949
Academic background
Academic work
Institutions

Early life

Okazawa-Rey was born in Japan to an African-American father and a Japanese mother and cites her mixed race heritage made possible by American occupation of Japan as influencing her work on anti-militarism.[3]

Career

Positions

Dr. Margo Okazawa-Rey is Professor Emerita, San Francisco State University. She also was Core Faculty in the Doctoral Program of the School of Human and Organization Development at the Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California. She has also held the Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership at Mills College, Jane Watson Irwin Chair and Elihu Root Chair in Women's Studies at Hamilton College.

Research

Margo Okazawa-Rey's specific areas of interest are militarism, armed conflict, and violence against women.  In her research, she examined the connections between militarism, economic globalization, and impacts on local and migrant women in South Korea who live and work around US military bases.[4]

Okazawa-Rey also worked with women in the militarized and post-conflict areas of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, and Nigeria, where they are exploring the role of feminist research in activism, policy change, and women's empowerment.  A related interest was connecting the effects of the military-industrial complex and prison industrial complex have on poor and working-class youth in American communities of color.[4] She is, making connections—both theoretical and practical—between foreign policy and domestic policy.

Activism

As a founding member of the Combahee River Collective in the mid-1970s, it shaped her scholarship and activism and the framework of intersectionality has informed her activism on military violence against women, inter/intra-ethnic conflicts, and critical multicultural education in Boston, Washington, DC, and the San Francisco Bay Area.[5]

In addition to her role as a member of the Combahee River Collective, she was also a founding member of the Afro-Asian Relations Council, the Institute for Multiracial Justice, and the East Asia-U.S. Women's Network Against Militarism, which became the International Women's Network Against Militarism. She has a long-standing relationship to international social justice work as she sits on the international board of NGO's: PeaceWomen Across the Globe (based in Bern, Switzerland), and Du Re Bang (My Sister's Place, based in Uijongbu, South Korea); after having worked for three years as the Feminist Research Consultant at the Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling in Ramallah, Palestine.[4]

Publications

She is the author of numerous publications including:

  • “Making Connections: Building the East Asia-US Women's Network” Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey, 1998. In Women and War Reader, Jennifer Turpin and Lois A. Lorentsen (eds). New York: New York University Press. pp.308-322.
  • “Children of GI Town: The invisible legacy of militarized prostitution” Margo Okazawa-Rey, 1997. Asian Journal of Women's Studies, Spring: pp. 71-100.
  • Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. (6th Ed.) Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey, 2016. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  • Activist scholarship: antiracism, feminism, and social change. Julia Sudbury and Margo Okazawa-Rey, 2009. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.
  • "Militarism, Conflict, and Women's Activism in the Global Era: Challenges and Prospects for Women in Three West African Contexts" Amina Mama and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Feminist Review (vol. 101:1), July 2012. pp. 97-123
  • Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Multicultural, Anti-Racist Education and Staff Development. Lee, E., Menkart, D., & Okazawa-Rey, M. (Eds.). 2011. [6]
  • “No Freedom without Connections: Envisioning Sustainable Feminist Solidarities.” (2018) in Feminist Freedom Warriors: Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope, Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Linda Carty (eds.). New York: Haymarket Press.
  • Between a Rock and Hard Place: Southeast Asian Women Confront Extractivism, Militarism, and Religious Fundamentalisms (2018). Washington DC: Just Associates.
  • “Liberal Arts Colleges Partnering with Highlander Research and Education Center: Intergenerational Learning for Student Campus Activism and Personal Transformation,” Feminist Formations Special Issue on Feminist Social Justice Pedagogy (2018).
  • Gendered Lives: Intersectional Perspectives (7th Edition). Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey, 2020. Oxford UK/New York: Oxford University Press.
  • “Nation-izing” Coalition and Solidarity Politics for US Anti-militarist Feminists, Social Justice (2020).

Awards and nominations

References
  1. "International Women's Network Against Militarization Weaving Movemens for Genuine Security & Sustainable Futures". iwnam.org. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
  2. Mama, Amina; Okazawa-Rey, Margo (2012). "militarism, conflict and women's activism in the global era: challenges and prospects for women in three West African contexts". Feminist Review. 101 (101): 97–123. doi:10.1057/fr.2011.57. ISSN 0141-7789. JSTOR 41495235.
  3. Okazawa-Rey, Margo. "Life and Thought - Margo Okazawa Rey" Global University for Sustainability. Web. 22 Oct. 2015. Accessed 10-10-2019
  4. Carty, Linda; Mohanty, Chandra Talpade (2014-08-04). Baksh, Rawwida; Harcourt, Wendy (eds.). "Mapping Transnational Feminist Engagements". Oxford Handbooks Online. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199943494.013.010.
  5. Jokela-Pansini, Maaret (2018-09-27). "Multi-sited research methodology: Improving understanding of transnational concepts". Area. 51 (3): 516–523. doi:10.1111/area.12494. ISSN 0004-0894.
  6. "Beyond Heroes and Holidays". Social Justice Books. Retrieved 2020-03-11.
  7. ExpertFile. "Margo Okazawa-Rey, EdD Doctoral Faculty - School of Leadership Studies - Expert with Fielding Graduate University | ExpertFile". expertfile.com. Retrieved 2019-11-02.
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