Anna CohenMiller Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Anna CohenMiller, PhD, is an internationally renowned qualitative social justice methodologist and award-winning educational leader who uses compassionate and transformational research/leadership to address issues of gender equity and inclusion in higher education in Kazakhstan and internationally. She specializes in arts-based research to facilitate/amplify voice of marginalized communities, speaking internationally and publishing accessible texts and online media to guide and encourage research in socially, economically and ecologically just work.

Dr. CohenMiller is Co-Founding Director of The Consortium of Gender Scholars (Kazakhstan), Founder of The Motherscholar Project, and Editor in Chief of Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy. Her recent methodological books are Questions in Qualitative Social Justice Research in Multicultural Contexts (with N. Boivin) and Life-Changing Moments in Qualitative Social Justice Research: Transformational Learning, Vulnerability and Critical Self-Reflection.