2004 to Present

Associate Professor, Africana Studies Department, San Francisco State University.

1998 to 2004

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Ethnic Studies Program, Santa Clara University.

1996 to 1998

Lecturer, Ethnic Studies Program, Santa Clara University.

1989 to 2001

Founder & Former Executive Director, Leadership Excellence Inc., Oakland, CA.

1993 to 1996

Academic Coordinator, Upward Bound Project, San Jose State University.

1995 to 1996

Lecturer, Department of African American Studies, San Jose State University.

1991 to 1992

Lecturer, Department of African American Studies, San Diego State University.

1990 to 1992

Graduate Teaching Assistant, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.

1990 to 1992

Instructor, Skills Center of America School of Business, San Diego, CA.

1989 to 1990

Associate Counselor, San Diego State University E.O.P., San Diego, CA.

1988 to 1990

Program CoordiJanuary 12, 2008n Diego, CA

Black Youth Rising: Radical Healing and Activism in Urban America. Teachers College Press, Columbia University: New York

Ginwright, S., P. Noguera and J. Cammarota, Eds. Beyond Resistance!: Youth Resistance and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth. New York, Routledge.(In Press)

2004

Black In School: Afrocentric Reform, Urban Youth and the Promise of Hip-Hop Culture.Teachers College Press, Columbia University: New York

Black Youth Activism and the Role of Critical Social Capital in Black Community Organizations." American Behavioral Scientist.

Ginwright, S. and J. Cammarota."Youth activism in the urban community: Learning critical civic praxis within community organizations." International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 20(6): 693-710.

Ginwright, S. Toward a Politics of Relevance: Race, Resistance and African American Youth Activism. Social Science Research Council. http://ya.ssrc.org/african/

• Ginwright, S. Racial Justice Through Resistance: Important Dimensions of Youth Development for African American Youth. National Civic Review (In Press).

2006 Racial Justice Through Resistance: Important Dimensions of Youth Development for African American Youth. National Civic Review

2005

Ginwright, S., J. Cammarota and P. Noguera. Youth, Social Justice and Communities: Toward a Theory of Urban Change. Social Justice 32(3).

2005

On Urban Ground: Intergenerational Tensions in Black Community Change. Community Psychology, 49 (4), 544-562.

2003

Youth Organizing: Expanding Possibilities for Youth Development. New York: Funder's Collaborative on Youth Organizing: Occasional Papers Series

• New Terrain in Youth Development: The Promise of a Social Justice Approach. Social Justice (Ginwright and Cammarota)Social Justice, 29 (4).

2002

Classed Out: The Challenges of Social Class in Black Community Change. Social Problems, 49 (4), 544-562.

2002

From Assets to Agents: Social Justice, Organizing and Youth Development. New Directions in Youth Development (Ginwright and James) New Directions in Youth Development, 96 (Winter).

2001

Critical Resistance: American Racism and African American Youth. Youth Development Journal, August 2001, Issue 3.

1999

Identity For Sale; The use of racial and cultural identity in urban school reform. New Directions in Youth Development (Ginwright and James) Urban Review,(32) 87-104.

1999

Identity For Sale: The Afrocentric Movement and the Black Urban Struggle in Oakland Public Schools. Dissertation, University of California Berkeley.

1992

Perceived Intercultural Training Effectiveness in the Workplace, Thesis, San Diego State University.

Collective Radical Imagination: Youth Participatory Action Research and the Art of Emancipatory Knowledge. Revolutionizing Education: Youth Participatory Action Research in Motion. J. Cammarota and M. Fine. New York, Routledge.

2006

Activism for the Hip-Hop Generation: Urban Youth and the Struggle for Social Justice. Youth Activism: An International Encyclopedia [Two Volumes]. L. R. Sherrod, C. Flanagan and R. Kassimir. CT, Greenwood Publishing Group.

Activism and Civic Life Among African American Youth: International Symposium on Youth Civic Engagement. Youth Research Center, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia

Structural Racism and the Impact on Youth Development: Center for Applied Research and Technical Assistance. Institute on Disparities on Adolescent Sexuality and Reproductive Health. Baltimore, MD.

March, 2004

Understanding the Contours of Youth in Their Communities. Research Roundtable on Youth Activism: Ford Foundation. New York, NY.

March, 2004

Challenging Structural Racism: Innovations, Barriers, and Needs in Youth Development. Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity, Washington, DC.

November, 2002

Youth Development in the United States. European Youth Symposium Berlin Germany.

February, 2002

Understanding Youth Through Schools and Communities, Social Policy Research Associates, Oakland, CA.

November, 2001

Toward a Social Justice Model of Youth Development, Funder's Collaborative on Youth Development, San Francisco, CA.

November, 2001

Beyond Youth Development, Third Annual LISTEN conference in Baltimore, MD.

Surdna Foundation

$175,000 Support for two years for Research Collaborative on Youth Activism.

Rockerfeller Brothers Foundation

$150,000 Support for three years for Research Collaborative on Youth Activism.

Ford Foundation

$200,000 to document youth activism in five cities and support for the Research Collaborative on Youth Activism.

Ford Foundation

$225,000 to support the project entitled,Youth Social Justice and Communities: Toward a National Youth Policy. The project builds a community of scholars of color to explore social justice issues related to children and youth in urban communities and develops policy recommendations for local and national youth stakeholders.

November, 2000

Santa Clara University Research Grant on Social Problems

$6,500 to support the cost of data collection, equipment, student research assistant stipends, subscriptions to relevant journals and other research costs.

December, 1999

The Center for Multicultural Learning: Building Partnerships for Diversity

Ethnic Studies Program Santa Clara University, $1,100 to support the Black Panther Legacy Tour Community Learning Experience.

June, 1999

Ford Foundation

Leadership Excellence Inc. $225,000 over three years to document urban youth leadership development activities and to develop training and curriculum handbook.

October, 1997

Walter S. Johnson Foundation

Leadership Excellence Inc., $55,000 over two years to improve and evaluate effectiveness of youth development services to low income African American teens.

October, 1997

Evelyn and Walter Haas Foundation

Leadership Excellence Inc., $40,000 over two years to expand services to low income African American teens in Oakland.

October, 1997

Walter S. Johnson Foundation

Leadership Excellence Inc., $55,000 over two years to improve and evaluate effectiveness of youth development services to low income Africa American teens.

October, 1997

Evelyn and Walter Haas Foundation

Leadership Excellence Inc., $40,000 over two years to expand services low income African American teens in Oakland.

September, 1996

Heron Foundation

Leadership Excellence Inc., $30,000 to hire full and part time staff to transition from volunteer staff to paid staff positions.

Bayview Hunters Point Community Fund
designed, implemented and evaluated a 8 year organizational capacity building strategy for 12 community based organizations in the Bayview Hunters Point community in San Francisco.

San Francisco Unified School District
designed and implemented racial wellness trainings for 100 School Health Programs Department employees six times per year.

Spencer Foundation
Concept paper for to inform national trends and strategies for youth activism.

Tucson Unified School District
Member of consulting team to design and implement district wide evaluation of cultural curriculum.

Ford Foundation
Development of National Youth Development

Tides Foundation
Bay View Hunters Point Youth Development Institutes. San Francisco, CA.

February, 2001

Aspen Institute, Washington D.C.
Advisor; Aspen Institute Project on Structural Racism.

October, 2000

Innovation Center, Baltimore, MD.
Youth Leadership for Development Initiative design team.

April, 1999

Ford Foundation, New York, NY.
Youth Leadership and Development evaluation team.

Board of Directors, West Oakland Community School.
Develop fiscal management and financial oversight plans. Work closely with Executive Director in budget development. Oversight of management team evaluation.

2001 to Present

Board of Directors, Leadership Excellence, Inc.
Work closely with Executive Director in the implementation of a five-year strategic plan. Oversight of management evaluation.

2001 to Present

Member, American Sociological Association

1998 to Present

Member, National Community Building Network

1998 to Present

Member, Pacific Sociological Association

1998 to 2001

Chairperson, 26th Annual Anthropology Sociology Undergraduate Research Conference, Santa Clara University