Gopal Dayaneni

Gopal Dayaneni is an Adjunct Faculty member at Antioch University's Undergraduate Studies program, where he teaches courses in urban sustainability. As a lifelong activist since the late 1980s, he has worked at the intersection of ecology, economy, and empire through direct action movements, teaching, and community organizing.

• Staff Collective at Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project
• Board member of The Ruckus Society and Center for Story-based Strategy
• Advisory board member of The Working World and Catalyst Project
• Former campaigner for Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition and Project Underground

He has also worked as an elementary and early childhood educator, co-directing the Tenderloin Childcare Center in the U.S. and engaging in teacher education work in India. The father of two, he resides in Oakland, California, in a multi-generational intentional community.