Judy Pryor-Ramirez

Judy Pryor-Ramirez (she/her/ella) is a clinical associate professor of public service at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a senior fellow at the University of Richmond’s Bonner Center for Civic Engagement. She is a feminist pedagogue inspired by scholars who open our imaginations to questions of power in the pursuit of justice. As an interdisciplinary practitioner-scholar, Judy teaches and researches leadership for social justice at the intersection of race, class, and gender. A qualitative researcher trained in sociology, she specializes in community-based participatory action research. Her work is informed by academic study at Teachers College, Columbia University, and training at Rockwood Leadership Institute, Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and the Public Science Project’s Critical Participatory Action Research Institute. She has contributed essays to Public Seminar, The New Historia, and Intervenxions. Her forthcoming book chapter on the Free Southern Theater’s story circle practice in the edited book Anti-colonial Research Praxis: Methods for Knowledge Justice will be published in 2025 with Manchester University Press.