Jan Knippers Black

Jan Knippers Black is a member of the Executive Board of the California Democratic Party and of its Platform Committee, a member of the Monterey County Central Committee and its Executive Board, and a Vice President of the California Democratic Council. She is also a Professor in the Graduate School of International Policy Studies of the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Jan has been a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony's College, Oxford, a faculty member in the University of Pittsburgh's Semester-at-Sea Program, a Research Professor at the University of New Mexico, and a research team supervisor at American University. She is also author, editor, or co-author of more than two dozen books and almost 200 chapters or articles in anthologies, encyclopedias, journals, magazines or newspapers.