Radical Community-Based Learning: Tapping into Students' Sense of Justice by Prof Vincent Russell, Western Carolina University, USA

Bio: Prof Vincent Russell

Vincent Russell is an assistant professor and the Liberal Studies Program Coordinator in the Department of Communication at Western Carolina University, where he teaches courses on intercultural communication, interpersonal communication, and public speaking. A critical ethnographer who employs community-based research methods, his research (a) emphasizes communication activism for social justice scholarship, which involves communication scholars intervening collaboratively to aid marginalized individuals, activist groups, and community-based organizations to obtain social justice; and (b) explores deliberation practices and processes engaged in by people pursuing collective action. He is the author of 12 peer-reviewed journal articles.