Joseph WronkaJoseph Wronka is a Professor of Social Work in the School of Social Work and Behavioral Sciences at Springfield College, Springfield, MA, and Representative to the United Nations in New York for the International Association of Schools of Social Work(IASSW). Professor Wronka received a Fulbright Senior Specialist award three times, in the discipline of social work with specialties in social justice and poverty and subspecialties in human rights, psychology, and existential-phenomenology. In 2015, he went to Pakistan and Austria as a Fulbright Scholar and in 2020 to Greece. Select academic appointments included: West Georgia College, St. Francis College, New York University, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, Framingham State College, Caldwell College, Ramapo College, Chukchi Community College, the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Kotzebue Technical Centre, College of the Holy Cross, Simmons, Boston College, Franklin Pierce College and in Europe, Fachhochschule at Berne and Zurich, Switzerland; Vienna, Sankt-Poelton, and Innsbruck, Austria; and Hanover, Germany. He was also a Research Associate and Visiting Scholar at Brandeis University and Visiting Fellow at the University of Delhi, India. He was also a counselor at alcoholism and methadone maintenance treatment centers; clinician in community mental health centers and private practice; director of a mental health/substance abuse center; human rights commissioner; Vice President of the World Citizen Foundation; and board member to the Coalition for a Strong United Nations. He is presently on the advisory board for The Journal of Cross-Cultural Thinkers (Chinese University of Political Science and Law, Beijing). He has a show “Creating a Human Rights Culture” at Amherst Media, Massachusetts. His website is: www.humanrightsculture.org Published widely in scholarly and popular fora, he has presented his work in roughly twenty countries. His interest is primarily the development of social change strategies to implement human rights principles, in other words, the creation of a human rights culture, which he views as the pillars of social justice. Such principles mirror substantively millennia of teaching in various spiritual and ethical belief systems, which assert ultimately that every person, everywhere ought to be guaranteed their human rights, and live with human dignity and to their potential, without discrimination. At times, he refers to himself as an “adventure junkie.” Additionally, he likes to travel, swim laps, kayak, fish, ride his bike; and play classical music on the piano and concert and ethnic pieces on the accordion. Select major works are: A History of the Idea of Human Rights of Human Rights and Comparison of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights with United States Federal and State Constitutions (University Press of America, 1998), The Dr. Ambedkar Lectures on the Theme Creating a Human Rights Culture (National Institute of Social Work and Social Sciences Press, Orissa, 2001) and Human rights and social justice: Social action and service for the helping and health professions (Sage, 2017). Read More Read Less