Leo Hwang

Leo L. Hwang's area of interest is in using participatory action research and asset-based community development as a model for enhancing how we engage in racial justice work in higher education. He earned both his PhD in Geosciences and an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and his BA in English and Fine Arts from the University of the South. His work has appeared in The Handbook of Diverse Economies, Human Being & Literature, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Travel and Tourism, Route Nine, Rethinking Marxism, Solidarity Economy I: Building Alternatives for People and Planet, Meat for Tea, The Massachusetts Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Rivendell, Fiction, Gulf Coast, and other journals and publications. He has taught at UMass Amherst, Mount Holyoke College, Greenfield Community College, and Westfield State University, as well as served as Dean of Humanities, Engineering, Math, and Science at Greenfield Community College for over 16 years.