Donna Maeda retired from Macalester College as Dean Emerita of the Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citizenship (IGC) and Professor Emerita of American Studies in 2021. Donna worked to build community among BIPOC faculty, staff, and student scholar activists. She connects scholarship in critical race legal studies with transformative possibilities created by collaborative campus and community partnerships, collective leadership practices, and building solidarity through organizing.

Currently in Los Angeles, Donna continues to support efforts to build collaborative relationships across academic and broader communities for more just futures. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Ethics from the University of Southern California; a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; and a B.A. in Music History and Literature from St. Olaf College.