Episode 51: Rural Socio-hydrology
A conversation with Dr. Daniel O'Connell (Central Valley Partnership) about land, water, and community development in the CA Central Valley. Released May 5, 2023.
guests on the show
Daniel O’Connell
Dr. Daniel O’Connell is executive director of the Central Valley Partnership, a regional nonprofit organization and progressive network of labor unions, environmental organizations, and community groups spanning the San Joaquin Valley. Trained as a multidisciplinary ethnographer, he holds an MS in International Agricultural Development from University of California, Davis, and a PhD in Education from Cornell University. In 2021, Dr. O’Connell published In The Struggle: Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California. As a politically engaged scholar, his work is dedicated to achieving social, racial, environmental, and economic justice in California.