Ange-Marie (Hancock) Alfaro

Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro was the 2016-2017 APC Diversity Visiting Scholar.She presented five public talks and interdisciplinary workshops to a total of more than 160 people, throughout campus. In addition to these formal presentations, Dr. Hancock met with dozens of faculty and students from Social Policy and Practice, the Law School, the Graduate School of Education, Annenberg School for Communication, and Arts and Sciences, including Africana Studies, Political Science and GSWS. She also guest lectured in one of GSWS’s undergraduate courses: Introduction to Queer Studies.

Dr. Hancock is Professor and Chair of Gender Studies at the University of Southern California and a globally recognized scholar of intersectionality theory, the world's leading analytical framework for analyzing and resolving inequality. She has written numerous articles and three books on the  intersections of categories of difference like race, gender, class, sexuality and citizenship and their impact on policy: the award-winning The Politics of Disgust and the Public Identity of the “Welfare Queen,” (2004), Solidarity Politics for Millennials: A Guide to Ending the Oppression Olympics (2011) and Intersectionality: An Intellectual History (2016). The applied forms of her research focus on diverse donors in philanthropy, partnerships between funders and nonprofits for social change, and cross-sector training of leaders to implement intersectionality.