Friday, November 13, 2026

Karen Ross and Marcia Mundt

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Karen Ross is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and a dialogue practitioner/trainer. Her applied and scholarly work focus on issues at the nexus of grassroots activism, education, and social change. Marcia D. Mundt is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts-Boston. She is also a current USIP Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar and Fulbright-Hays Fellow researching deliberative democracy and its impacts on peacebuilding in Central America.

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