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Alex Fink, MSW, LGSW, PhD

Assistant Professor & Faculty Director
Augsburg University
Minneapolis, MN, United States

I am an Assistant Professor in Augsburg University’s Department of Social Work and the Faculty Director of the Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship. My main area of focus and practice is Transitioning Leadership, utilizing participatory and youth-led program design, evaluation and research to support transitions to youth leadership in youth-serving organizations (and more generally, support program and organizational leadership coming into the hands of those most impacted by the issues said programs seek to solve). With this as the larger frame, I work with young people and youth-serving organizations to study the data work done on and with young people, including data collection, data use, data access/sharing, data economics and infrastructures, and the ideologies surrounding it. These studies occur at the intersections of participatory research methods, youth leadership development, the history of social movements, and critical technology studies. Alongside several groups of young leaders, I am working to challenge data practices that enforce ageism and oppression, and to involve young people in decision-making about data work in non-profit organizations. My teaching reflects a similar focus, using the classroom as an opportunity to train future practitioners as change leaders and leadership developers, with an orientation toward supporting clients' self-determination and collective organizing for change.

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