Todd Beer's current sociological interests in globalization, social movements and political sociology emerged from his diverse life experiences including working as a photojournalist and doing a story on the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s, volunteering a year in rural Mozambique for a community health and education program, guiding wilderness adventure trips for teens in the Western U.S. for seven years, earning an interdisciplinary MA in the Social Sciences in Humboldt State University's & Community program, doing field research in Western Kenya, and guiding service-learning and cultural education trips for teens in Kenya, Tanzania, and Nepal. His current research explores how individuals and organizations in Kenya participate in and are influenced by world society.