Justin Chen

Biography

Justin Chen (he/they) is a PhD candidate in Adult Education and Community Development, specializing in Workplace Learning and Social Change. He is interested in researching organizational development and change, informal adult learning in the workplace, and the lived experiences of equity-deserving groups in work and employment contexts. His doctoral work uses qualitative methods to examine how employee resource groups function as relational spaces for dialogue, learning, and change. 

Drawing from interdisciplinary fields of work and learning, critical disability studies, race and ethnicity studies, and critical management and organization studies, his research examines how inequalities are produced and challenged within contemporary workplaces and organizations. It also seeks to identify practical strategies for addressing work and employment inequalities at the individual, organizational, and societal levels (e.g., leadership learning, program planning and improvement, policy development, and public pedagogy).