Kevin Kresse

I bring a critical, international and multicultural perspective to my outlook on work and life. Having lived and worked with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India, and carried out human rights investigations in Nicaragua, Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico, I am comfortable working in uncomfortable environments, but also skeptical of conventional and received wisdom.

I studied Sociology, Anthropology, Media, Religion, Social Movements and Political Economy at Denison University and Duke University. I have many years experience doing independent human rights work, as well as public speaking and writing on US foreign policy, democracy movements and human rights in Central America and Mexico.

I have been employed in college teaching and tutoring, social science research, academic, grant and media writing, editing, public speaking, and Spanish-English translations.

I have also worked at and helped manage bakeries, restaurants, kitchens and catering companies, among other small businesses.

My current research interests include the revitalization of post-industrial Buffalo as a political, cultural and economic process, and the restructuring of the human rights movement in the post 9-11 world of deepening authoritarianism and the acceleration of global militarism.

Having spent two decades in Durham, North Carolina, and several years living and working in Central America and Mexico, I currently live in my hometown of Buffalo, New York.