Pamela R. Lightsey

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  by Cristina Echeverri-Pineda and Mateo Villamizar-Chaparro
- Improving Evidence and Relevance at the Same Time
  by Neil A. Lewis Jr.
- Nós por Nós: How Community Organizations are Reinventing Democracy in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas
  by Anjuli Fahlberg, Cristiane Martins, Joiceane Eugenia Lopes, Ana Claudia Araujo, Lidiane Santos, Sophia Costa and Guilherme Baratho
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- Understanding and undoing the far right: India and beyond
  by Nitasha Kaul and Dibyesh Anand
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- Casamance: Questioning the Significance of December 26, 1982
  by Pape Chérif Bertrand Bassène
- The Impact of Climate Change on the Food Crisis in the Grand Sud of Madagascar
  by Sherihan Radi
- Rekindled My Self-Confidence, Creativity, and New Perspectives to Research
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Dr. Pamela R. Lightsey is VP of Academic Affairs at Meadville Lombard Theological School located in Chicago, IL. She has been engaged as a social justice activist in protest for LGBTQ rights and the movement for Black lives. Her most recent publications are Transforming Service: Reflections of Student Service Professionals in Theological Education and Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology.