Ann Brooks Texas State University-San Marcos, USA

 Ann Brooks is a scholar and practitioner whose work focuses on adult learning as knowledge construction and organizational and community change. Her current research is on learning in contexts of personal, social, and/or ecological disruption, focusing specifically on the learning strategies of women and families who have been put most at risk in our current era of economic, political, and social disruption. She has worked in education in Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, Japan, China, Mexico, Colombia, and New Zealand.

She earned her doctorate in Adult and Higher Education at Columbia University Teachers College, an MA in clinical psychology at Fielding Graduate Institute, and an MAT in TESOL at the School for International Training in Vermont. She has directed graduate programs in adult education or human resource development graduate programs at the Colleges of Education and the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and the College of Education at Texas State University. She was formerly a Professor of Education and an Honorary Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and is currently a Professor of Education and Honorary Professor of International Studies at Texas State University. She was a Visiting Professor at California Institute of Integral Studies and at Waikato University in New Zealand. She is a former Fulbright Scholar with the Royal University of Phnom Penh. She serves as current Chair of the Commission of Professors of Adult Education.

Ann is past editor of the Adult Education Quarterly and past associate editor of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education and of the Human Resource Development Quarterly. Recent books include Consulting In Uncertainty (2013) and Just Keep Trying (in English and Khmer) (2012). Her journal articles on critical reflection, collaborative and collective learning, and action learning for organizational or community change have appeared in such journals as Human Resource Development International, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Advances In Developing Human Resources, Adult Education Quarterly, and Adult Learning.