Margo Okazawa-Rey

Margo Okazawa-Rey is Professor Emerita, San Francisco State University, an activist, and educator working on issues of militarism, armed conflict, and violence against women examined intersectionally. She is a founding member of the International Women’s Network Against Militarism and Women for Genuine Security and is President of the Board of Directors of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID). Her recent publications include “Building a Culture of Life: A Conversation on Abolition, Feminism, and Asian American Politics” (Frontiers, 2023), “Two Decades of Feminist Organizing for Genuine Security: Understandings from the International Women’s Network Against Militarism” in Feminist Conversations on Peace (Bristol University Press, 2022), “Nationizing Coalition and Solidarity Politics for US Antimilitarist Feminists” (Social Justice, 2020), Gendered Lives: International Perspectives with Gwyn Kirk (Oxford University Press, 2020), and “No Freedom without Connections: Envisioning Sustainable Feminist Solidarities” in Feminist Freedom Warriors: Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope (Haymarket, 2018). She was also a founding member of the Combahee River Collective.