Dr. Geri Augusto

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Geri Augusto is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, with a focus on the dynamics of knowledge in pluralist societies characterized by power inequalities. Her research interests include science and technology policy, higher education policy in the Global South, and the interaction of technosciences with indigenous knowledges particularly in Southern Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean. She has co-convened the Brown International Advanced Research Institutes and has contributed to public humanities projects engaging with enslaved African narratives in Southern New England. Augusto is also involved in a current book project concerning digitality and social justice within traditional fishing communities in Bahia, Brazil. Her academic background includes degrees from Howard University and Harvard's Kennedy School, augmented by a doctorate from George Washington University. Previously, Augusto has consulted on organizational transformation and taught at Harvard Kennedy School. Her work has been widely recognized, including being named a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil from 2013-2014, and she remains actively engaged in research that interrogates the political-epistemic dimensions of social movements, particularly those focused on black liberation.

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