Michael Dando

An award-winning author, artist, educator, and scholar with two decades of classroom experience, his research and writing explore ways teachers and schools collaborate with communities to build collective, civically engaged, democratic opportunities and systems for social justice education. Particularly, his research examines ways youth employ various cultural forms, including hip-hop and comics, to construct social, cultural, and political identities and literacies that generate educational opportunities for sustained, critical, democratic engagement for social justice.

Dr. Michael B. Dando earned his PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on multicultural education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently an Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Literature at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.