Janna Goebel is an assistant professor of sustainability education in the College of Global Futures, School of Sustainability and a Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. She graduated with a PhD in educational policy and evaluation from the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at ASU in 2020. As a Global Development Research Scholar, and with the support of First Solar and the United States Agency for International Development, Goebel completed her dissertation research based on her time on family-owned coffee plantations in Southeastern Brazil.
Her work focuses on the ways that education can be conceptualized beyond the human and explores how relationships among humans and the more-than-human world matter in how we approach sustaining life on Earth. Goebel earned a Master of Arts degree in Teaching English as a Second Language and Multicultural Education from Loyola Marymount University (LMU). Goebel co-taught GLE 598: Education in the Anthropocene in the online Master of Education degree in Global Education program in the Fall 2020 semester and GLE 598: Economics of Education in Global Contexts in Spring 2021. She is teaching SOS 311: Futures Thinking and Strategies, SOS 498/594: Enterprise-based Sustainability Education, as well as SOS 589: Community of Scholars this fall.