Mike Klein, Ed.D. is Associate Professor and Director of the Justice and Peace Studies Program in the Department of Justice and Society Studies at the University of St. Thomas. His research, publishing, and consulting focus on democratizing leadership, peace education, critical pedagogy, art for social justice, and peacebuilding. Klein was a 2007 Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow and completed the James P. Shannon Leadership Institute in 2011. He is also an artist working with communities to create murals and sculpture that address themes of identity and social movements. He develops the agency of students and communities to transform culture and structures for the advance of social justice.