Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D
When: Tue, Jan 16 2018 4:30pm
Where: SUB, Ballroom A, UNM Main Campus
Peggy McIntosh, Ph.D., former associate director of the Wellesley Centers for Women, is also the founder and now senior associate of the National SEED Project. SEED helps teachers and community members create their own local, year - long, peer - led seminars in which participants use their own experiences and those of their students, children, and colleagues to widen and deepen school and college curricula and make communities and workplaces more inclusive.
Dr. McIntosh directs the Gender, Race, and Inclusive Education Project, which provides workshops on privilege systems, feelings of fraudulence, and diversifying workplaces, curricula, and teaching methods. Dr. McIntosh has taught English, American Studies, and Women's Studies at the Brearley School, Harvard University, Trinity College (Washington, D.C.), Durham University (England), and Wellesley College. In addition to having four honorary degrees, she is a recipient of the Klingenstein Award for Distinguished Educational Leadership from Columbia Teachers College. She earned her doctorate degree from Harvard University.
Sponsored by:
- Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies Graduate Student Organization (LLLSS GSA)
- College of Education Graduate Student Leadership Association (CCOE GSLA)
- Lawrence Roybal, Ph.D, Interim Vice President for Equity and Inclusion
- Dr. Eliseo Torres, Vice President for Student Affairs
- The Institute for the Study of “Race” and Social Justice
