Andrew Jolivette

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Andrew Jolivette (Opelousa/Atakapa-Ishak), author/sociologist

Andrew Jolivette (Opelousa/Atakapa-Ishak) Ph.D., is an accomplished educator, writer, speaker, and social/cultural critic. His work spans many different social and political arenas - from education reform and cultural representation in Native America to community of color identity issues, critical mixed-race movement building, critical whiteness studies, and AIDS disparities within Indigenous and people of color communities. Dr. Jolivette received a Bachelor's degree in Sociology with a double minor in Ethnic Studies and English Literature from the University of San Francisco, a Master's degree in Ethnic Studies with a concentration in American Indian Studies from San Francisco State University, a Master's degree and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Jolivette is associate professor and chair of American Indian Studies [1] at San Francisco State University. He is also an affiliated faculty member in Educational Leadership and Race and Resistance Studies at SF State. He recently completed a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship through the National Academy of Sciences. Professor Jolivette has also received grants and awards from the K & F Baxter Foundation, the Jacques Johnet American Indian Scholarship, the University of California Chancellor's Graduate Student Fellowship, and the M-RISP and RIMI Programs at San Francisco State University. Jolivette is an IHART [2] (Indigenous HIV/AIDS Research Training) Fellow with the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI) [3] at the University of Washington in Seattle from 2010-2012.

He is a mixed-race studies specialist with a particular interest in Comparative Race Relations, Creole studies, Black-Indians, and mixed-race health disparities. He has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of San Francisco and a Researcher with the University of California, San Francisco on issues of racial violence among African American and Latino/a youth in the Bay Area. Before coming to San Francisco State University, Jolivette was the Dean of Middle School Students and Multicultural Programs at Presidio Hill School in San Francisco and has also served as the Interim Principal for Cross-Cultural Environmental Leadership Academy (XCEL)a public charter high school in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Books, Publications and Media

Professor Jolivette is the author of three books, Cultural Representation in Native America (AltaMira Press, 2006)[4] which is a part of the Contemporary Native American Communities Series, Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed Race Native American Identity (Lexington Books, 2007)[5] and the forthcoming book, Obama and the Biracial Factor: The Battle for a New American Majority (The Policy Press/University of Chicago Press, February 2012)[6] [7] which seeks to understand the impact of President Obama's biracial identity on the election campaign of 2008, on Obama's first 100 days in office, and what his historic election might mean for the current battle for a new American majority. Jolivette is currently working on his fourth book, Indian Blood: Mixed Race Gay Men, Transgender Women, and HIV which explores how race and sexuality intersect to create social and sexual risk. Indian Blood builds upon previous scholarship by looking at Indigenist Stress Coping Mechanisms (Walters & Simoni, 2002) and extends this work by developing an Inter-Generational Healing and Cultural Leadership Model. He has appeared on Bay Native Circle Radio, KALW-FM, public radio,[8] on ACCESS San Francisco's Red Road television show, Native American Calling, KGO/ABC's 7Live Talk Show to discuss the use of Apache Leader Geronimo's name in the mission to capture Osama Bin Laden, and is featured in the film, Echoes of Yourself in The Mirror: AIDS The Long Journey to Good Bye.

Professor Jolivette is the editor of a special volume of the American Indian Cultural and Research Journal (UCLA) entitled, "Indigenous Landscapes Post-Katrina: Beyond Invisibility and Disaster" which examines the state of Native American tribes and communities two years after Hurricane Katrina. He is the co-author of A Report on the Health and Wellness of Multiracial Youth in the Bay Area. His work has also appeared in the Ethnic Studies Review Journal, Crash Course: Reflections on the Film Crash for Critical Dialogues About Race, Power and Privilege (2007), Hurricane Katrina: Response and Responsibilities (2005) edited by John Brown Childs, and in the forthcoming anthologies, Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective (Spring, 2010); and Sociologists in Action (Spring 2011).

Community Work

In June 2011, Professor Jolivette served as co-representative of the GLBT Historical Society in the 41st San Francisco Pride Parade, as Local Community Organization Grand Marshal. Jolivette is currently serving as an advisory panel member on the 2 Spirit Grant Project at the Native American Health Center in Oakland, California and will act as an American Indian/Indigenous Peoples' Representative at the Global Forum on HIV and the Law in September 2011. Dr. Jolivette has done work with the Agape Foundation which works for peace in both national and international contexts. He recently served on the San Francisco Human Rights Commission's Special Task Force on the Status of Native Americans. He is the board president of the Institute for Democratic Education and Culture - Speak Out[9], the former Board President of iPride[10], a national organization for mixed heritage and transracially adopted youth and their families. He is also a college speaker with the Institute for Democratic Education and Culture and has delivered keynotes at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Stanford University; Ramapo College of New Jersey; the University of San Francisco, Pasadena City College; the University of Washington, Seattle; Lafayette College in Pennsylvania; the University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Brown University, Providence; The University of Maryland Medical School, Baltimore; Syracuse University; Emmanuel College, Boston; Eastern Washington University; at the 19th Annual Washington State Students of Color Conference in Yakima; at the American College and Personnel Association Conference in St. Louis; at the California Council of Cultural Centers in Higher Education Directors Conference in Irvine; at San Francisco State University as well as at local middle schools and high schools throughout Northern California. He recently delivered keynotes at Tulsa Community College, Seattle Central College, Seattle University, Lewis & Clark College, Spokane Falls Community College, Bellevue Community College, at The Evergreen State College, Highland Community College, the University of Florida, Northeastern University (Boston) in 2009. His most recent talk was at the NASPA (National Association of Student Personnel Administrators) Conference in Chicago (March 2010). Upcoming keynotes will be presented at Oregon State University (April 2010) and at the University of San Diego (April 2010). Professor Jolivette was one of three featured keynote speakers at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference held at DePaul University in Chicago (November 2010) he will give the keynote address for the City College of San Francisco's 6th Annual Diversity Conference, "Embracing our Multiple and Intersecting Identities" on March 24th, 2011 and he will be a featured speaker at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE) in June, 2011. On June 11th Dr. Jolivette served as the graduation commencement speak at the American Indian Student Resource Center on the University of California, Santa Cruz campus. He is scheduled to speak at Napa Valley College on the multiracial experience on September 22nd, 2011, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana for the Creole Heritage Day Alive and Well Conference, October 6, 2011, at the 13th Annual Diversity Speakers Series for the Institute of Real Estate Management in San Francisco on October 21st, 2011, on December 1st, 2011 for the 30th Anniversary of World AIDS Day at UC Riverside, on February 7th, 2012 at the University of Tulsa's Race and Privilege Lecture Series, and at the Power of One Northwest Leadership Conference on April 6th and 7th, 2012 at Oregon State University.

Jolivette is a Creole of Opelousa, Choctaw, Atakapa-Ishak, Cherokee, French, African, and Spanish descent. He currently serves as the Tribal Historian for the Atakapa-Ishak Nation and as Co-Chair of the Board of the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. [11] Jolivette is also a member of the Bay Area Association for the Preservation of Creole Culture. Dr. Jolivette is currently under consideration (Summer 2011) for Board Membership with the DataCenter [12], an Oakland based research and empowerment agency supporting social justice through critical community driven action oriented research. As a descendant of the Creoles of Louisiana, Dr. Jolivette is personally and professionally aware of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on issues of race and ethnicity in the United States and is actively working with the Louisiana Creole Heritage Center [13] on a Creole Heritage Recognition Bill to add a Louisiana Creole ethnicity category to the 2010 U.S. Census.