Tag: Profile

Community Colleges

Dr. Adrienne Grayson Transitions Her Equity Work Into the Community College Sphere

Dr. Adrienne Grayson entered the field of higher education with a goal of helping students have a positive college experience. Her interest in student affairs stemmed from being an Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) tutor and holding several related jobs during her undergraduate years at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).

January 19, 2021

Dr. Juliana Mosley Shares Her Journey Through Academia

Dr. Juliana Mosley considers herself an “educator through and through.” Her career began in the Houston Independent School District, where she worked as a high school teacher, while juggling teaching night classes at a local community college.

December 9, 2020

Meet Kimberlé Crenshaw, a Dr. John Hope Franklin Award Recipient

Dr. Crenshaw famously coined the term “intersectionality” in 1989 to describe how race, gender, class and other individual characteristics intersect, when she published an article titled, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” in the University of Chicago Legal Forum.

April 7, 2020

Kimberle Crenshaw

Meet Dr. Walter R. Allen, A Dr. John Hope Franklin Award Recipient

When Dr. Walter R. Allen takes on a research project, there must always be a larger purpose — something he discusses with graduate students and young academics. According to Allen, African American scholars cannot live in an ivory tower. All research — including his more than 150 publications — must, in some way, illuminate the challenges that communities of color face.

April 6, 2020

Walter Allen UCLA Sept 15

Why Tonya Butler Gave Up the Courtroom for the Classroom

As a self-described “starving actress” and someone who grew up in Los Angeles, pursuing the film and television industry was an obvious choice for Tonya Butler. She decided to take her interest in the entertainment industry one step further and pursued a law degree. On the first day of law school at California Western School […]

April 2, 2020

Page 1 of 1