The 2014 Mitchell Symposium public lecture, “Occupational Activism for Global Justice,” by Dr. Gelya Frank, PhD, is now available online.
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The Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy welcomed , Professor at the University of Southern California, Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, as the 2014 Mitchell Symposium Scholar. As a founding contributor to OS, Dr. Frank’s work bridges OT, OS, and anthropology in projects such as the interdisciplinary NAPA-OT Field School in Guatemala that she has led since 2008. She is author of the award-winning books Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America (University of California Press), Defying the Odds: The Tule River Tribe’s Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries (Yale University Press), and the forthcoming Occupational Reconstructions: Embodiments of Social Justice (Duke University Press).