
Dr. Paul David Terry (he/they) manages experiential learning with the UC Davis Undergraduate Education experiential learning hub, with initiatives that infuse the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into urban farming and critical education into healthcare. He recently earned a doctorate in International and Multicultural Education with concentrations in Human Rights Education and Racial Justice & Education from the University of San Francisco, with research focused on how human rights practitioners traverse contentions in justice work, centering global Indigenous and queer paradigms to inform how to activate liberatory practices for thriving within colonial contexts. Paul serves as a faculty mentor for the Undergraduate Research Center at UC Davis, exploring ways to rethink research through global, queer, and Indigenous perspectives, and leads the Gadugi Geekeries, Cherokee scholars advancing justice across academic areas by writing in kinship. He has taught at various institutions, including UC Davis, UC San Francisco, UC Davis Health, the University of San Francisco, Rise for Racial Justice, and the College of San Mateo, and has presented on human rights and peace education at the International Peace Research Association, the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education, and the Comparative International Education Society. His work has been funded by the Center for Humanizing Education and Research, the Universidade Federal de São Carlos Advancing Healthcare Equity Speaker Series Fellowship, UC Davis Inclusive Excellence, and the International Peace Research Association. He recently published “Literacies of the Rainbow Corn Mother: A Queer Indigenous Eye for DEI” in the International Journal on Human Rights Education and has forthcoming publications with the SAGE Encyclopedia of Indigenous Education, Rutgers University Press, and Vernon Press for a chapter in Decolonizing the Curriculum: Teaching Race and Developing Knowledge about Indigenous Literature. He is a Point Foundation scholar and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
