Context Changes Everything - A Conversation with Dr. Alicia Juarrero

Alicia Juarrero, is Co-Founder and President of VectorAnalytica
and Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Prince George’s Community
College (MD).


She is the author of Context Changes Everything: How Constraints
Create Coherence, published last year:
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5600/Context-Changes-EverythingHow-Constraints-Create⁠


Her other books are Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a
Complex System (MIT 1999) and co-editor of Reframing Complexity:
Perspectives from North and South (ISCE Publishing, 2007), and
Emergence, Self-Organization and Complexity: Precursors and
Prototypes (ISCE Publishing, 2008).


Alicia was named the 2002 U.S. Professor of the Year by the
Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; in 2003
she received the Edward T. Foote Alumnus of Distinction Award of
the University of Miami; in 1995 the Distinguished Humanities
Educator Award of the Community College Humanities Association.
In 1992 Alicia was appointed by the President of the United
States and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to the Advisory Board of
the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) where, from
1992-2000 she served as NEH’s Chair of Council Committee on State
Programs. In that capacity she was responsible for the oversight
of approximately $32 million in NEH funds distributed annually to
the States Humanities Councils.


Born in Cuba, Alicia has played a leading role in introducing
complexity concepts and theory to that island nation and
currently serves as Secretary-Treasurer of Friends of Havana’s
January Complexity Seminars, a 501(c)3 not for profit
organization which supports the work of complexity scholars in
Cuba.