NCID-1129
Roxanna Duntley-Matos
President, Organization of Latino Social Workers
Michigan Child Trust Fund for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
Education/Degree:
1 Anthropology and Social Work (University of Michigan)
About
Roxanna Duntley-Matos is graduate of University of Michigan's joint doctoral program in anthropology and social work. She is currently a board member of the governor appointed Michigan Child Trust Fund for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. She is also the president of the Organization of Latino Social Workers. She is the recipient of the University of Michigan Circle Award for bridging the University to the broader community through educational excellence and of the student awarded "Jane Addams Scholarship from the Heart Medallion" for promoting outstanding student professional and community development through public scholarship.
Current Work
Her research is collaborative and promotes the participation and validation of various community and academic contributors. Her current public scholarship continues to focus on transformative education in Flint through the engaged participation of higher education institutions and area residents to promote community revitalization through lead crisis relevant nutrition, gardening, music, and critical theory. It aims to facilitate political consciousness, cultural humility, transformative complicity, and an ethic of care leading to social action and to a cosmopolitan/transcultural vision of social justice. Dr. Duntley-Matos' team's long-term goal is to promote child, family, and community welfare that is intimately linked to an institutional education permeated by popular and transformative methods centered on community outreach, engagement, empowerment, and cultural respect.
Research Area Keyword(s)
community-engaged ethnography, cultural humility, Empowerment, Transformative complicity, transformative pedagogy