Why Context Matters

Alicia Juarrero is the author of Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence (MIT Press, 2023) and Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System (MIT Press 1999). Juarrero received the 2002 U.S. Professor of the Year award from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and in 1992 was nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve on the Advisory Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. A native of Cuba, in the early 2000s she spearheaded an effort to bring the study of complex dynamical systems to that island nation. Juarrero is Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Prince George's Community College, Maryland and President and CEO of VectorAnalytica, Inc. She received her BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Miami (FL).