Writing & Publications
The founders of Willing Observers LLC, Dr. Luzilda Arciniega & Dr. Melissa Maceyko, are always up-to-date on the latest material and writing about their own ideas and areas of research. They do this writing for different audiences and publish pieces both together and separately. Below is a select list of their co-authored and independent publications. Note that works are linked, as is possible. You can also find some of these works on this website. Asterisks (**) indicate pieces that have been more widely cited and/or circulated.
Forthcoming
CO-AUTHORED
(2025) Building Inclusive Cultures: Methods and Metrics for More Impactful DEI Work Implicit Bias & Structural Racism
(book, in preparation)(2024) What is Belonging and How do We Measure It?
(2024) If You Value Inclusion, Detach Your Organizational Values from DEI
Published
(2022) What's the Difference Between DEI and D&I Anyway?
Academic Articles
INDIVIDUAL: LUCY
(2021) Creating diversity markets through economization: The politics and economics of difference in neoliberal organizations
(2021) Representing Race in Graphs: WEB Du Bois, Corporate Bureaucrats, and Visualization Strategies for Change
(2020) Selling diversity to white men: How disentangling economics from morality is a racial and gendered performance**
Opinion Editorials
(2021) - Diversity and Inclusion and the Rise of the Alt‐Right **
(2019) - What Does Diversity and Inclusion Mean? **
(2018) - The Spirit of Affirmative Action in Hollywood and Academia
(2018) - The New Elite's Battle Against Affirmative Action
(2018) - Starbucks, Racism, and the Anthropological Imagination **
(2018) - Diversity Audited (A Short How‐To Guide)
(2017) - Six ways anthropologists can challenge white supremacy
(2017) - The Disastrous End for DACA Students and Workers
(2017) - Advocating Professionalism or Muting Mental Health Problems?
(2017) - The Zero‐Sum Game of White Supremacy
(2017) - Beyond the Criminal Discourse in Title IX Procedures
(2017) - Managing Hope after Affirmative Action
(2017) - Racial Projects **
(2017) - Notes on the Political Divide
Academic Articles
INDIVIDUAL: MISSY
(2024) (in preparation) – A Right to Misgender? The Framing of Free Speech and Gender in Popular and Legal Discourses
(2021) – Political Campaigns, Voter Outreach, and American Democracy: Socializing Effective Participation and Citizen Agency in the United States**
Academic Paper-Presentations
(2021) – Scaffolding Metalinguistic Awareness in Diversity and Inclusion Training
(2020) – Building Sociality through Embodied Interaction: Designing and Implementing Multiethnic Youth Summer Camps in Rural Bulgaria
(2019) – Dialog and Debate: Policing Self-Other Emotion in the Production of an Educated Feminine Self
Opinion Editorials
(2023) (in publication) – Corporate Political Activism in the United States: Impactful Responses to Anti-Abortion and Anti-LGBTQ+ Legislation
(2022) – Moving Between Academic Anthropology and Practitioner Work**
(2021) – Collaborative Manifesto for Political Anthropology in an Age of Crisis**
(2021) – What Do You Mean By Abolition?