As part of the journal’s commitment to expanding our reach, deepening our impact, and diversifying the field, we are pleased to announce several new members cycling onto the MJCSL editorial board. Please give our incoming members a warm welcome!

Erica Y. Yamamura, Ph.D.

For over 15 years, Dr. Erica Yamamura has served as a professor training educational leaders in P-20 education, specifically utilizing community-engaged pedagogies to apply theory-to-practice for community benefit. Her research interests include: college access; equity, diversity and inclusion; community partnerships; and assessment and evaluation. Dr. Yamamura co-authored the book Place-Based Community Engagement in Higher Education. She received her BA in Political Science and Asian American Studies, and MA and Ph.D. in Education (Higher Education and Organizational Change) from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Joseph Krupczynski

Along with being MJCSL's new Portfolio Section Editor, Joseph Krupczynski is a professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the director of the office of Civic Engagement and Service Learning (CESL). Joseph’s creative work and scholarship prom­otes imaginative community partnerships and crafts participatory platforms to engage people in the creation of their built environments—especially in collaboration with underrepresented communities. He is a founding director of The Center for Design Engagement (C*DE), a 501(c)(3) design resource center in Holyoke, MA (www.designengagement.org) that is dedicated to exploring community identity through creative place-making. As CESL Director, he continues to promote critical service-learning and partners with communities on and off campus to work collectively for a more just world.  

Kaston Anderson Jr., Ph.D.

Kaston is an assistant professor of Psychology at Michigan State University, whose research aims to understand the social determinants that contribute to inequity in sexual minority communities, and the processes that facilitate positive change.

Kiesha Warren Gordon, Ph.D.

Dr. Kiesha Warren-Gordon is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice/Criminology and the director of the African American studies program at Ball State University where she also serves as an affiliate faculty member in the Gender and Women’s Studies program. She is also an adjunct professor for Galen University-Belize. Her substantive areas include violence against women and critical community engagement. She is the 2021 recipient of the Ball State Community-Engaged Faculty member of the year. She is the recipient of the 2023 Gerald Bepko Community Engagement Grant Award (Bepko Award). Given by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education (ICHE), the Bepko Award honors a faculty member at an Indiana public or private institution who embodies the concept of community engagement.

Kính T. Vũ

Kính T. Vũ is an assistant professor of music at Boston University. In 2020, Kính and his colleague André de Quadros published the first-ever volume about forced human displacement and its relationship to music education. My Body Was Left on the Street: Music Education and Displacement (Brill-Sense, 2020) includes contributions by incarcerated persons, members of LGBTQ communities, war refugees, climate migrants, people experiencing homelessness, and music educators. Part of Kính’s scholarly-creative production includes a 2023 documentary—Song of Earthroot (4th District Productions)—in which music plays a central role in his narrative about transracial/transnational adoption, music education, and self-discovery.

Thank you to our outgoing board members for their years of service to the Journal and the field of community engaged scholarship. 

• Barry Checkoway
• Janet Eyler
• Novella Keith
• Richard Norton
• Katie Richards-Schuster
• Sharon E. Sutton