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Katie Johnston-Goodstar
cmjg@u.washington.edu
Education
B.S. Family Social Science, College of Human Ecology, University of Minnesota
M.S.W. and International Development and Policy Management, University of Washington
Ph.D. Candidate Social Welfare, University of Washington.
Honors
- NSF IGERT fellow
- NIH T32 Traineeship
- IIIHCWR fellow
- School of Social Work scholarship recipient
- Environmental Leadership Program Training Fellowship
Research
My research focuses on historical and contemporary aspects of environmental justice movements in international indigenous communities. I examine how political justice concepts of recognition and political participation relate to environmental policies. Further, I am interested in exploring how electoral design, political identity and Indigenous environmental values moderate political participation and policy outcomes.
Publications and Presentations
Johnston-GoodStar, K. (2008). Guest Lecturer, El Centro de Educacion Mundial, Photovoice: Theory, Method and Action (3 presentations)
Trinidad, A. and K. Johnston-GoodStar (Forthcoming) Keiki O Ka 'Aina (Children of the Land): Hawaiian Cosmology & Sense of Place, book chapter, University of Minnesota Press
Johnston-GoodStar, K., Trinidad, A. and A. Tecle Solomon (Forthcoming), Critical pedagogy through the reinvention of place: Three cases of youth resistance in (Eds) Brad Porfilio and Paul Carr,Youth Culture, education and resistance: Subverting the commercial ordering of life.
Johnston-Goodstar, K. and Palmenteer-Holder, L., Walters, K. (2005) Oral Presentation at the Indigenous Knowledges Conference, Historical Trauma and Decolonizing Strategies for Indigenous Families and Communities, Wellington, New Zealand
Johnston-GoodStar, K., (2007) Poster presentation at the Indigenous Network of Health and Knowledge Development conference, Native Youth Look at Their Environment, A Participatory Exploration of Place and Justice
Mercury: Politics, Participation and Poison, PAR Capstone film project
Johnston-GoodStar, Legislative Guide for Interfaith Advocates, 2004
Administration and Service
International Social Work Committee
Community Coalition for Environmental Justice
SWINAC
Highlights
- Current IGERT research: Wind Power on Native Reservations: Interdisciplinary examination of renewable energy interests on Native land.
- Multinational Proposal: My research will focus on environmental justice movements in indigenous communities and their impacts on public policy in New Zealand and the United States.
- Theoretical and Methodological foundations: I plan to utilize community based participatory action techniques within postcolonial, empowerment and social justice based theories.
- Travel Experience: Mexico, Canada, New Zealand, France, Spain and over 20 United States and Native American nations.
- Languages: Spanish and Arabic (beginning)
