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Cathy Rakowski Human and Community Resource Development & Women's Studies

Cathy A. Rakowski (Ph.D. University of Texas, 1984) is Associate Professor of Human and Community Resource Development and of Women’s Studies. Her research focuses on processes of development and social change including: planning; social engineering; program implementation and evaluation; social impact assessment; community development under conditions of economic and political restructuring; gender and class issues; globalization, and; grassroots and transnational organizing. Her work concentrates on Latin America, particularly Venezuela, and Africa.