Daniel Schugurensky is a professor in the School of Public Affairs and in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, where he is co-director of the Participatory Governance Initiative and coordinator of the graduate certificate in social transformation, the undergraduate certificate in human rights, and the master's in social and cultural pedagogy.

Among his recent authored or edited books are "Global Citizenship Education in Teacher Education" (Routledge, 2020), "By the People: Participatory democracy, civic engagement, and citizenship education" (Participatory Governance Initiative 2017); "Volunteer Work, Informal Learning and Social Action" (Rotterdam: Sense, 2013),  "Paulo Freire" (Continuum Library of Educational Thought. London: Continuum, 2011), "Learning citizenship by practicing democracy: international initiatives and perspectives" (Cambridge Scholarly Press, 2010), "Four in Ten: Spanish-Speaking Youth and Early School Leaving in Toronto" (LARED/University of Toronto, 2009), and "Ruptures, continuities and re-learning: The political participation of Latin Americans in Canada" (Toronto: Transformative Learning Centre, 2007). He has published more than 100 articles, book chapters and technical reports on a variety of topics, including adult education, community development, participatory democracy, citizenship education, social economy, civic engagement, higher education, migration, and volunteer work.