Margo Okazawa-Rey

Margo Okazawa-Rey (born November 26, 1949, in Japan) is an American professor emerita, educator, writer, and social justice activist, who is most known as a founding member of the Combahee River Collective, and for her transnational feminist advocacy.

She also was core faculty in the Doctoral Program of the School of Human and Organization Development at the Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California.

[5] From 1974 to 1982, Okazawa-Rey worked as social worker in Dorchester and Roxbury, Massachusetts, and co-founded CARE (Campaign for Anti-Racist Education).

In her research, she examined the connections between militarism, economic globalization, and impacts on local and migrant women in South Korea who live and work around US military bases.

[citation needed] In 1994, Okazawa-Rey received a Fulbright Program in South Korea, citing an interest in interminority racism between Korean and African Americans.

[3][21] She has a long-standing relationship to international social justice work as she sits on the international board of NGO's: PeaceWomen Across the Globe (based in Bern, Switzerland), and Du Re Bang (My Sister's Place, based in Uijongbu, South Korea); after having worked for three years as the Feminist Research Consultant at the Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling in Ramallah, Palestine.

[19][22] Okazawa-Rey was one of the 100+ Black scholars and academics who opined their support for Bernie Sanders during the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.