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Doctoral Candidate
University at Albany, State University of New York
Albany, NY, United States
Megan M. Fowler (she/ze/they) is a PhD candidate at the University at Albany (SUNY) in the School of Social Welfare, studying the intersections of contemplative science and transformative change as they relate to ecological justice, critical consciousness, and holistic ways of being. Megan is particularly invested in understanding the internal dimensions of supremacist logics, the social, political, and ideological structures and systems that legitimize their expression, and ways of nurturing resurgent and insurgent knowledges in support of amplifying life-affirming ways of thinking, sensing, being, and relating to all of life and the animate earth. A somatic and contemplative practitioner and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher, Megan is a healing-based social justice educator and critical interdisciplinary scholar who uses participatory, discourse, embodied phenomenological, and arts-based methods and draws from a plurality of critical theories and post-theoretical orientations in their scholarship. Megan is passionate about the role of contemplative pedagogies and embodied learning in social work education and seeks to both lessen the gap between theory and practice and expose the complicated interplay between internal/external and micro/macro level phenomena toward a more critical, liberatory, and transformative field of scholarship and practice. Megan’s current work and prospective dissertation seek to elucidate inner/outer change mechanisms in support of helping repair the human/planet relationship and shifting social work toward a planetary vision of health, healing, and social-ecological interventions.
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Saturday, October 26, 2024
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM CT