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Celina Su About
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. My interests lie in civil society and the cultural politics of education and health policy.
I am
co-author of Our Schools Suck (with Gaston
Alonso, Noel Anderson, and Jeanne Theoharis, New York
University Press, 2009) and author of Streetwise
for Book Smarts (Cornell University Press,
2009).
I also serve
as a co-Executive Director of the Burmese
Refugee Project, which I co-founded in 2000. With
an annual budget of around $5,000 and using a
participatory model of community development, the
Project helps over 200 Shan refugees in northwest
Thailand access education, health, and legal services.
We believe that by building a well-educated, healthy,
and economically robust Shan community, the BRP can help
to build the foundations for their participation in a
future democratic Burma.
In the past, I have worked on other projects examining the role of social institutions and civil society in public policy, at MIT, the Brookings Institution, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. I received a Ph.D. in Urban Studies from MIT and a B.A. Honors from Wesleyan University. I was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and until recently, I lived on the block where Taxi Driver was filmed and Emma Goldman and Margarita Maza de Juárez used to live. Now, I live around here.
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