Dr. Joseph Wronka is professor emeritus, Springfield College, Massachusetts. He has also had extensive post-secondary teaching experience in the United States, including in Alaska, Georgia, and New York City, and briefly in Europe at Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. He has represented the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) for roughly two decades and was on the executive committee at the United Nations for an NGO working for Indigenous Peoples. Having been to India previously – Bhubaneswar, Delhi, and Karnataka – he was also a Fulbrighter in Pakistan, Austria, and Greece. Dr. Wronka was one of the 300 human rights/social justice activists who attended the 50th anniversary of the UN endorsement of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He has presented his work in roughly 20 countries. He is the author of numerous scholarly and popular articles, as well as books, with his latest book being Human Rights and Social Justice: Social Action and Service for the Helping and Health Professions. Having studied the phenomenon of performing and street musicians at the University of Nice, he completed his doctorate in social policy from Brandeis University; his master’s in existential-phenomenological psychology from Duquesne University; and his bachelor’s from Brooklyn College.