Mike Klein, Ed.D. is Professor of Justice and Peace Studies and Department Chair of Justice and Society Studies at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota USA. He teaches undergraduate courses in Leadership for Social Justice, Active Nonviolence, Qualitative Research, and Making Art for Social Justice, and graduate courses on critical pedagogy and diversity leadership.
His research, writing, and consulting focus on democratizing leadership, critical pedagogy, peacebuilding and the arts, intersectionality, and racial justice. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, he is the author or editor of eight books including, Democratizing Leadership: Counter-hegemonic Democracy in Organizations, Institutions, and Communities (2016, Information Age Publishing). He is also a public artist working in sculpture, murals, and photography that address pressing social issues. Klein was a 2007 Bush Foundation Fellow, completed the James P. Shannon Leadership Institute in 2011, and is a 2024 inaugural member of the Washington National Cathedral's Sacred Spaces: Racial Justice and Spirituality in Action. He develops personal and collective agency for structural and cultural transformation.
