Richard Keith Gordon is currently a professor in the International Center of Seisa University. Earliest teaching experiences were in the Philadelphia, Upper Darby, and Los Angeles school districts teaching k-12 school children. Higher education experiences have been with USC, CSUDH, Antioch, and CSUSB. Degree in the Philosophy of Education with a minor in Educational Psychology. Research interests in general, urban, and multicultural education. Published poet.
Kawser Ahmed is an adjunct professor at the University of Winnipeg (political science) and a co-founder of Winnipeg based research think tank – Conflict and Resilience Research Institute Canada (CRRIC). He completed his SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship at the same university in 2020. He was an exchange officer with the Turkish Armed Forces, an observer to the United Nations Missions in Western Sahara (MINURSO), and an alumnus at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA) in National Defense University (NDC), Washington DC. Dr. Ahmed graduated in Peace and Conflict studies (MPhil, University of Dhaka & PhD, University of Manitoba).Dr. Ahmed is a research fellow with the Center for Defense and Security Studies (CDSS) and a junior research affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Safety (TSAS). He was an associate with the Canadian Practitioners Network for Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence (CPN-PREV). His research interests are social conflict and peace-building through education, genocide, counter radicalism and extremism, and UN peacekeeping operations. He lives with his wife, two children, and two cats in Winnipeg, Manitoba. For more details visit www.crric.org
Miwako Hosoda graduated from the Department of Sociology at the University of Tokyo in 1992, and received an MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of Tokyo. After working as a research fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, she studied at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Upon returning to Japan, she joined Seisa University as professor in 2012. She has been conducting Sociological research though observing human relations in the healthcare and education field. Using knowledge from her prior research on advocacy, policy, and public participation, she has been making collaborative efforts with local communities. Dr. Hosoda is president of International Sociological Association's Research Committee of Sociology of Health (2018-2023) and president of the Asia Pacific Sociological Association (2017-2020). She founded Inclusive Action For All (a General Incorporated Association) in 2020.