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Joel Federman

Job Titles:
  • Writer, Teacher
Joel Federman, Ph.D., is a writer, teacher and activist. He is Director of the Transformative Social Change Specialization at Saybrook University. He has a doctorate in political philosophy from the University of Southern California, and currently lives in San Francisco. His writing and teaching focuses on helping people to reinvision their individual and collective potential, to see themselves shaping a better world. He is currently writing a book, The Politics of Universal Compassion, that explores the possibility of achieving a global revolution of values. His writing has been published in Common Dreams, the Los Angeles Times; the Encyclopedia of Communication and Information; Tikkun Magazine; the Yearbook of the UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen; Alternet; Campaigns and Elections; and Humanities in Society