Meadville Lombard Theological School, Chicago, Illinois

• Revitalized and launched the Fahs Collaborative Laboratory for Leaders in Faith and Learning • Co-creating pedagogical strategies supporting the new model for ministerial formation; • Integrating the “scholarship of teaching and learning” into the work of faith and human development; • Conducting seminal research and developing a new theoretical framework for faith development for People of Color in Predominately White Religious Communities; • Creating next generation of teaching strategies to educate privileged learners engaged in social justice advocacy; • Identified and incorporated technological tools to improve teaching and deepen the experience of the Meadville Learning Community.

George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia

Initiatives in Educational Transformation (IET) • Acting Director; supervised support staff; moderator for faculty meetings, professional development, intellectual leadership; liaison to CEHD leadership; liaison to non-university entities.; • Co-created a professional development curriculum designed to deepen and expand teachers’ sense of role and accountability to students and families; • Co-created a series of aesthetic curricular units that raise teacher consciousness around issues of race, class, ethnicity, gender, body image, sexual orientation, developmental capacity and other forms of human diversity; • Empowered teachers to connect with their sense of self-authority, imagination and creativity.

Columbia University, New York City

• Co-created the residential college [house] system for undergraduate liberal arts students, including serving as Dean of McBain-River House for 300 students. • Responsible for the re-design of the educational curriculum for resident advisers in undergraduate houses; 1993-1996.

We Who Defy Hate: Preparation for Interfaith Social Justice Action

View, Jenice L & Hicks, Mark A. (2016). The Fahs Collaborative: Chicago.

Beloved Conversations: Meditations on Race & Ethnicity (2nd edition)

Hicks, M.A. (2015). Beloved Conversations: Meditations on Race & Ethnicity. (2nd edition). An eight unit, experiential curriculum designed to surface and explore how the construct of race/ethnicity shapes individuals and congregational life. Fahs Collaborative Classroom: Chicago.

Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth

Hicks, M.A. (2011). Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth (2011). Selected to design and test a pilot curriculum that prepares UU congregations to engage the spiritual and social justice dimensions of environmental justice. UUA: Boston.

Building The World We Dream About

Hicks, M.A. (2010). Building the World We Dream About. Selected by the Association to design and develop its first curriculum to develop multi-racial/multicultural congregations.

The Riverside Church in the City of New York

The Riverside Church in the City of New York. Facilitated the development of small-group courses to meet the spiritual needs of a justice-oriented, multi-denominational, multi-cultural Protestant cathedral; Co-Chair, 65th Anniversary of The Riverside Church.

National Association of College Admission Counseling

Hicks, M.A. & Shere, C. (1999). National Association of College Admission Counseling. Designed and piloted a graduate seminar/curriculum to transform the paradigm of how admission officers approach the recruitment and selection of underrepresented students.

D.C. Voice

D.C. Voice. Developed an action-research course for this progressive, grass-roots professional development non-profit program for District of Columbia teachers. Using the Smithsonian’s Museum of African Art as a base, helped District of Columbia teachers begin to see possibilities for how to transform their paradigm of teaching and learning practices.

Oklahoma Department of Health and Human Services

Designed and presented keynotes and weekend courses that encouraged human service workers re-think their paradigm around delivery of services to minority elders throughout the state of Oklahoma; 2001-2002.

Institute for Intercultural Communication

With L. Lee Knefelkamp, designed an intensive, holistic course for multicultural workers attempting to fuse multicultural theory and practice.

Rewards and Challenges of Educating in Faith Traditions.

In, The Oxford Handbook for Religion and Education. Oxford Press: London.

Teaching your heart: Pedagogical liturguy in challenging times.

In, Crossing Lines: Embodying our environmental justice commitment. Skinner House: Boston.

Barriers to transformation: Collaboration for justice within mixed educatioanl communities.

In, The Handbook of Research on the Social Foundations of Education. Routledge: New York.

The pedagogical artistry of shifting paradigms.

In, A people so bold. Skinner House: Boston.

SEEDs of promise: Transformative learning communities for diverse schools

With Diane Wood, Shari Winton and Debra Smith. In, Multicultural Perspectives, (10)1 30-34.

From hope to action: Creating spaces to sustain transformative habits of mind and heart

With, Jennifer Berger and Gretchen Givens Generett. In, The Journal of Transformative Education.

Lessons from rental cars: The struggle to create communities of reflection

In, Educational Studies, (38)2. Special issue, "The problem of colorblindness is US education".