Routledge Education Author of the Month November 2011: Frances Kendall

Congratulations to Frances Kendall, our Author of the Month!

Frances E. Kendall, Ph.D., has worked in the fields of multicultural education, white privilege, and organizational change for social justice for forty years, teaching at Tufts University and numerous community colleges. For the last thirty years she has consulted to scores of predominantly white colleges and universities, helping them become more inclusive of students and faculty of color and develop white racially knowledgeable and committed anti-racist activist leaders. She is the author of Understanding White Privilege and a contributor to the upcoming Unlikely Allies in the Academy: Women of Color and White Women in Conversation.

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Having grown up in segregated Waco, Texas, she went to boarding school at National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., in the midst of the Civil Rights movement, where she learned that what you have been taught is not always what is true. Her most exciting and meaningful academic experience was at Bank Street College of Education where she was encouraged to think in deeper and more complex ways. That process exploded in her work with the National Student YWCA, as she began a life-long process of understanding what it means to be white, Southern, and privileged. Throughout her life, both professional and personal, she has strived, as a medical friend once said about her, to develop the abilities to connect ideas and information that are seemingly not connected and to “remove a scab and tell you what is happening in the tissue below.” That process has guided her heart and mind, her writing, teaching and consulting.

Dr. Kendall is profoundly honored to have been named a Pioneer in Diversity by Profiles in Diversity Journal and an inaugural Legend of Diversity by the International Society of Diversity and Inclusion Professionals.

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