Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph.D., (he/they) (AKA Ant), activist-scholar award-winning author and educator, is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Salt Lake Community College, Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, National Co-coordinator of Save the Kids, and co-founder and Editor of the Peace Studies Journal. He has published over forty books and one-hundred book chapters or scholarly articles in over twenty different publishers.
Speaker Biography:
Anthony J. Nocella II, Ph. D., (Ant) (he/they), activist-scholar award-winning author and educator, is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Salt Lake Community College, Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, National Co-coordinator of Save the Kids, and co-founder and Editor of the Peace Studies Journal. Nocella is grounded in the fields of education, justice studies, youth justice, sociology, criminology, hip hop studies, lowrider studies, social justice, gender and sexuality, environmental justice, critical animal studies, ecoability, anarchist studies, queer studies, feminism, total liberation, critical race theory, critical pedagogy, and peace and conflict studies. He is internationally known for his innovative, transformative, and intersectional collaborations among fields of study, organizations, scholars, and communities. Nocella has published more than fifty scholarly articles or book chapters, co-founded more than ten active organizations and serves on four boards. He has founded five book series and co-founded four journals – Green Theory and Praxis Journal, Peace Studies Journal, Journal of Critical Animal Studies, and Transformative Justice Journal, and has published more than fifty books in twenty different presses.
