Rima Brusi

Rima Brusi is an educator, writer, researcher, and advocate specializing in 1)the use of applied anthropology and mixed research methods to study and improve policy and practice in public K-12 and higher education systems, 2) access to higher education for low-income, first-generation, and underserved or underrepresented students, and 3) public education, colonialism, disaster capitalism and displacement in Puerto Rico. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez and master’s and doctoral degrees in anthropology from Cornell University.  Currently, she is a professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University.  Previously, she was a Distinguished Lecturer at CUNY-Lehman College; scholar-in-residence at CUNY’s Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies; applied anthropologist and writer at The Education Trust in Washington D.C.; and Associate Professor at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez, where she also founded and directed the Center for University Access, a research and educational justice initiative that has expanded to six campuses in the system. Rima also writes literary non-fiction and is the author of 4 books in this genre.