Ion Vlad §

Ion Vlad, Ed.D. is the director of The Miner Anderson Family Foundation in San Francisco and a Writing Consultant, Guest Lecturer and Adjunct Professor at The University of San Francisco’s School of Education. Dr. Vlad is an Adjunct Instructor with the Human Rights Practice Program at the University of Arizona.  He is also a co-founder of the Peace Leadership Collaborative with Chapman University and The Euphrates Institute in California.  His research background and interests are in human rights and peace education, particularly third spaces of learning such as museums and memorials.

As the director of the Miner Anderson Foundation, Dr, Vlad has organized and conducted numerous teacher-training programs in human rights and sustainability education across the US, designed to assist educators to incorporate these aspects into their curriculum and institutional culture. 

Dr. Vlad received his doctorate in International and Multicultural Education with a concentration in Human Rights Education at The University of San Francisco in 2018. Some of his most recent publications include the following.

Vlad, I. (2018). Review of Dilemmas and hopes for human rights education. In Tibbitts, F. & Katz, S.R. (Eds.), Dilemmas and Hopes for Human Rights Education, Prospects, 47. 

Bajaj, M. & Vlad, I. (2019). Dialogue and agency: Educating for peace and social change. In Stearns, B. (Ed.), Peacebuilding Through Dialogue: Education, Human Transformation, and Conflict Resolution. Fairfax: George Mason University Press. 

Vlad, I. (2022). Emotion and memory in third-space human rights education: An examination of two national museums. International Journal of Human Rights Education, Vol. 6. 

Ford, J., Alviar-Martin, T., Jiang, B. & Vlad, I. (2024). Widening the aperture of social studies scholarship: Racial and colonial legacies in global citizenship and human rights education. In Zajda, J. and Rapoport, A. (Eds.), Discourses of Globalisation, Active Citizenship and Education. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.