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Barbara Love

Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts-Amherst


Barbara Love is a Professor Emeritus of Social Justice Education, COE, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She taught graduate classes on foundations of social justice education, design development and facilitation skills, and on self-awareness for social justice educators and liberation workers.

Love is recognized globally for her work on organizational and societal transformation and on issues of diversity, inclusion, and liberation. She directs the Black Liberation and Community Development Project of the International ReEvaluation Counseling Communities.

Her publications appear in a variety of journals and anthologies and focus on personal, organizational, and societal transformation and strategies for liberation. She has authored and co-authored chapters on Knowing ourselves as instructors, racism, ageism, and adultism.