Doctoral Candidates: Susan Ozawa

Bio

Susan Ozawa is a doctoral student in Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Her concentration is in Macroeconomics and Development. Ozawa received honorary distinction on her Ph.D. qualifying examination in Economic Development. She received her Master's degree in Global Political Economy and Finance from the New School for Social Research and her Bachelor's degree in Women's Studies and Community Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz where she graduated with College Honors. Ozawa's baccalaureate field-study was with an advocacy NGO working on the issue of trafficking in women in Manila in the Philippines. Her undergraduate thesis was based on research she pursued in Thailand and the Philippines on the Mail-Order Bride Industry. She has taught Political Economy of Women at Brooklyn College at the City University of New York and worked at a number of non-profits on issues ranging from disaster relief to environmental justice.

Ozawa is currently active with the Washington Interfaith Network, advocating for affordable housing, supportive housing and investment in marginalized communities in Washington, D.C. She has worked as a research consultant for a number of years and is currently doing research on Edward Nell, Karim Errouaki and Federico Mayor Zaragoza's forthcoming manuscript titled, Humanizing Globalization. She has recently been awarded a scholarship from Foundry United Methodist Church and received the Diamond Fellowship for her graduate studies from 2001 to 2005.

Ozawa is Yonsei, a fourth generation Japanese American on her father's side, and of Austrian and German decent on her mother's.