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Throughout my life, I have had a long-standing commitment to issues of equity and social justice. Before becoming an educator in the 1990s, I worked for many years within the peace and environmental movements. Even today I continue to view global warming as the most serious crisis facing humanity, requiring radical educational and economic change. As a secondary school teacher in Toronto, I was a founding member of the group, Educators for Peace and Justice, and actively involved in the group, Educators for a Global Perspective, so it made perfect sense that my more academic research should also focus on social justice and global citizenship education. Indeed, I have always believed in the potential of education to act as a force for positive social change. As a Board member of various organizations that support young people who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness, I have seen, first hand, the positive impact of educational programs in empowering vulnerable youth to find ways to overcome the barriers they face in their lives. To this end, I founded the Johansen-Larsen Foundation, in 2008. See www.jlfoundation.ca for details. The mission of the JL Foundation is to support educational initiative that improve the lives of marginalized children, youth and animals at risk. The work I do now as President of the Foundation is incredibly rewarding and reflects my belief that academics need to be connected to the communities within which they live and find ways to contribute to improving society. We can, no longer, think of the university as an ivory tower, detached from the wider community in which it exists. Rather, it is my belief, that academics have a moral responsibility to the public good and this must be reflected in the work they do both within the university, including how they support their students, and outside in the broader community, both locally and globally.
