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Please explore the various tabs to find out more about my teaching, research, and efforts to make my community and the world a more kind and equitable home.
Current Work
RE-AMP Network
Director of Rural and Remote Outreach
EPA Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program Region 5 (Great Lakes)
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
Professor of Sociology (on professional leave)
Contact
Email (dr.ryan.alaniz at gmail.com)
I appreciate the (updated) saying by Ian Maclaren, “Be kind for everyone is fighting a hard battle.” In my own selfishness and ego I often unconsciously see others through the lens of “Are they helpful or hurtful?” If you are speeding in traffic and cut in front of me–hurtful, well, annoying. If you are the … More Be Kind!
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different … More Another world is not only possible, she is on her way
Let us reflect, in his name, how we can work toward the development of a beloved community. “The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community. The aftermath of nonviolence is redemption. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation.”. –MLK Jr
Ryan Alaniz, PhD 