Andrew Jolivette
San Francisco State University, USA
Biography
Andrew J Jolivette is Professor and former Chair of the Department of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University, where he has been since 2001. He also currently serves as the Interim Executive Director of the San Francisco American Indian Community Cultural Center for the Arts. He is the author of five books: Among which Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community was a finalist in the LGBTQ Studies Category for a Lambda Literary Award in June 2017. He recently served as scholar in residence in Native Sexualities and Public Health at the University of California, Santa Cruz in fall 2013. He is the former Vice-Chair of the Data Center: Research for Justice Board of Directors as well as a former board member with the African American Art and Culture Complex, the Vice-President for Finance for Black Community Matters and as a Board Member of the Center for Restorative Solutions in California. He is the Book Series Editor of Critical Indigenous and American Indian Studies at Peter Lang Publishing in New York.