Image Faculty Title Adjunct Faculty Education Ph.D., University of Minnesota Alicia Gibson holds a law degree from the University of Colorado School of Law and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Minnesota. Her earliest academic training was at American University where she received a BA in international studies. Alicia is passionate about understanding the diverse ways people make meaning and organize their communal lives: she has lived in Cape Town, Stuttgart, and Hiroshima, in addition to many places across the United States. She now works to connect these various threads of her training – peace studies, environmental and Federal Indian law, and genocide / war / literary studies – at the local level. With training in restorative justice beginning in South Africa in the late ‘90s where she studied the truth and reconciliation process and more recently in the Twin Cities area, Alicia is involved in a number of civic and philanthropic projects from political advocacy to supporting local arts. Alicia writes commentary for local media outlets, serves as secretary of the board for the non-profits Soo Visual Arts Center and MicroGrants, and is a Vice Chair of the DFL Feminist Caucus. She finds joy and inspiration teaching writing courses at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.