Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., award-winning author, community organizer, and educator is an Assistant Professor criminology and sociology, gender and women's studies, environmental studies, and peace and conflict studies at Fort Lewis College, Editor of the Peace Studies Journal, Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, and National Co-Coordinator of Save the Kids. He is also the Director of the Academy of Peace Education and the Institute for Hip Hop Activism. He is the Co-editor of the Critical Animal Studies and Theory book series with Lexington Books and Editor of the Radical Animal Studies and Total Liberation book series with Peter Lang books. Nocella is a scholar-activist grounded in the field of education, justice, criminology, and peace and conflict studies. He is internationally known for his innovative, transformative, and intersectional collaborations among fields of study, social movements, scholars, communities, and activists.Dr. Nocella has published more than fifty scholarly articles or book chapters, co-founded more than ten active political organizations and serves on four boards. He has founded three book series and co-founded three journals - Green Theory and Praxis, Peace Studies Journal, and Journal of Critical Animal Studies, is on the editorial board of three other journals, and has published more than twenty books and fifty book chapters or scholarly articles.Dr. Nocella has guest lectured, provided professional development trainings, and facilitated youth workshops to hundreds of school districts, universities, colleges, high schools, middle schools and many prisons and detention facilities around the Americas, such as Onondaga County School District, St. Cloud School District, Hillbrook Youth Detention Facility, Auburn Prison, Environmental Protection Agency, Brock University, UCLA, Hofstra University, New York University Law School, Rutgers University Law School, Boston College, University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Swarthmore College, University of Texas, Yale University, and Princeton University.Areas of Expertise: social justice education, school to prison pipeline, urban education, cultural relevant pedagogy, critical pedagogy, disability studies/pedagogy, environmental education, ecopedagogy, youth culture, transformative justice, hip hop studies, gender and sexuality studies, critical animal studies, eco-ability, and peace and conflict studies.More about Dr. Nocella at: www.anthonynocella.orgContact him directly for speaking engagements or media interviews at: nocellat@yahoo.com