Julianne Malveaux
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Dr. Julianne Malveaux is the 15th president of Bennett College
. She is an African-American economist
, author, liberal social and political commentator, and businesswoman. She is well-known for her left-wing political opinions.
after the 11th grade, and earned a B.A.
and M.A. degrees in economics there in three years. She earned a Ph.D.
in economics
from MIT, and holds honorary degrees from Benedict College
, Sojourner-Douglass College
and the University of the District of Columbia
.
As a writer and syndicated columnist
, her work has appeared regularly in USA Today
, Black Issues in Higher Education, Ms. magazine
, Essence magazine, and The Progressive
. Her weekly columns appear in numerous newspapers including the Los Angeles Times
, the Charlotte Observer, the New Orleans Tribune
, the Detroit Free Press
, the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Sun Reporter.
Dr. Malveaux has appeared regularly on CNN
, BET
, as well as on Howard University
's Television show, Evening Exchange. She has appeared on PBS
's To The Contrary, KQED
's Forum
, ABC
’s Politically Incorrect
, Fox News Channel
's The O'Reilly Factor
and stations such as C-SPAN
, MSNBC
and CNBC
. She has also hosted talk radio programs in Washington, San Francisco, and New York
, as well as a nationally broadcast, daily talk show that aired on the Pacifica Radio
network from 1995 to 1996. She appeared on Black in America: Reclaiming the Dream hosted by Soledad O'Brian as a panelist on CNN
in 2008.
Dr. Malveaux serves on the boards of the Economic Policy Institute
, The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
, Women Building for the Future - Future PAC, and The Recreation Wish List Committee of Washington, DC. She is also the President and CEO of Last Word Productions, Inc, a multimedia
production company. Described by Dr. Cornel West
as "the most iconoclastic public intellectual in the country", Dr. Malveaux contributes to the public dialogue on issues such as race, culture, gender, and their economic impacts.
She taught at San Francisco State University
(1981-1985) and was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley
, (1985-1992). She has also been visiting faculty at the New School for Social Research, College of Notre Dame (San Mateo, California
), Michigan State University
, and Howard University
.
June 1, 2007, Dr. Julianne Malveaux became the 15th President of Bennett College
for Women in Greensboro, North Carolina
.
Co-Editor
Author
Co-Author
Bennett College
Bennett College is a four-year liberal arts women's college in Greensboro, North Carolina. Founded in 1873, this historically black institution began as a normal school to provide education to newly emancipated slaves. It became a women's college in 1926 and currently serves roughly 780...
. She is an African-American economist
Economist
An economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...
, author, liberal social and political commentator, and businesswoman. She is well-known for her left-wing political opinions.
Education and career
Malveaux entered Boston CollegeBoston College
Boston College is a private Jesuit research university located in the village of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. The main campus is bisected by the border between the cities of Boston and Newton. It has 9,200 full-time undergraduates and 4,000 graduate students. Its name reflects its early...
after the 11th grade, and earned a B.A.
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
and M.A. degrees in economics there in three years. She earned a Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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in economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
from MIT, and holds honorary degrees from Benedict College
Benedict College
Benedict College is a historically black, liberal arts college located in Columbia, South Carolina. Founded in 1870 by northern Baptists, it was originally a teachers' college. It has since expanded into a four-year college.-History:...
, Sojourner-Douglass College
Sojourner-Douglass College
Sojourner–Douglass College is a private institution of higher learning with an Afrocentric focus headquartered Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States....
and the University of the District of Columbia
University of the District of Columbia
The University of the District of Columbia is a historically black, public university located in Washington, D.C. UDC is one of only a few urban land-grant universities in the country and a member of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund...
.
As a writer and syndicated columnist
Syndicated columnist
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, her work has appeared regularly in USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
, Black Issues in Higher Education, Ms. magazine
Ms. magazine
Ms. is an American feminist magazine co-founded by American feminist and activist Gloria Steinem and founding editor Letty Cottin Pogrebin together with founding editors Patricia Carbine, Joanne Edgar, Nina Finkelstein, and Mary Peacock, that first appeared in 1971 as an insert in New York magazine...
, Essence magazine, and The Progressive
The Progressive
The Progressive is an American monthly magazine of politics, culture and progressivism with a pronounced liberal perspective on some issues. Known for its pacifism, it has strongly opposed military interventions, such as the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The magazine also devotes much coverage...
. Her weekly columns appear in numerous newspapers including the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
, the Charlotte Observer, the New Orleans Tribune
New Orleans Tribune
The New Orleans Tribune is a newspaper serving the African American community of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It was founded in 1985, and has the same name as an earlier newspaper established around 1864....
, the Detroit Free Press
Detroit Free Press
The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The Sunday edition is entitled the Sunday Free Press. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep"...
, the San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Sun Reporter.
Dr. Malveaux has appeared regularly on CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
, BET
Black Entertainment Television
Black Entertainment Television is an American, Viacom-owned cable network based in Washington, D.C.. Currently viewed in more than 90 million homes worldwide, it is the most prominent television network targeting young Black-American audiences. The network was launched on January 25, 1980, by its...
, as well as on Howard University
Howard University
Howard University is a federally chartered, non-profit, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university located in Washington, D.C., United States...
's Television show, Evening Exchange. She has appeared on PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
's To The Contrary, KQED
KQED-FM
KQED-FM is an NPR-member radio station owned by Northern California Public Broadcasting in San Francisco, California.KQED-FM was founded by James Day in 1969 as the radio arm of KQED Television. The founding manager was Bernard Mayes who later went on to be Executive Vice-President of KQED TV and...
's Forum
Forum (KQED)
Forum is a two hour live call-in radio program produced by KQED-FM, presenting discussions of local, state, national and international issues, and in-depth interviews. The program began in 1990 as a politics-oriented talk show, created and hosted by Kevin Pursglove...
, ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
’s Politically Incorrect
Politically Incorrect
Politically Incorrect is a late-night, half-hour political talk show hosted by Bill Maher that ran from 1993 to 2002. It premiered on Comedy Central from 1993 to 1997, and later on ABC in 1997, which cancelled it in 2002....
, Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
's The O'Reilly Factor
The O'Reilly Factor
The O'Reilly Factor, originally titled The O'Reilly Report from 1996 to 1998 and often called The Factor, is an American talk show on the Fox News Channel hosted by commentator Bill O'Reilly, who often discusses current controversial political issues with guests.The program was the most watched...
and stations such as C-SPAN
C-SPAN
C-SPAN , an acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, is an American cable television network that offers coverage of federal government proceedings and other public affairs programming via its three television channels , one radio station and a group of websites that provide streaming...
, MSNBC
MSNBC
MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
and CNBC
CNBC
CNBC is a satellite and cable television business news channel in the U.S., owned and operated by NBCUniversal. The network and its international spinoffs cover business headlines and provide live coverage of financial markets. The combined reach of CNBC and its siblings is 390 million viewers...
. She has also hosted talk radio programs in Washington, San Francisco, and New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, as well as a nationally broadcast, daily talk show that aired on the Pacifica Radio
Pacifica Radio
Pacifica Radio is the oldest public radio network in the United States. It is a group of five independently operated, non-commercial, listener-supported radio stations that is known for its progressive/liberal political orientation. It is also a program service supplying over 100 affiliated...
network from 1995 to 1996. She appeared on Black in America: Reclaiming the Dream hosted by Soledad O'Brian as a panelist on CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
in 2008.
Dr. Malveaux serves on the boards of the Economic Policy Institute
Economic Policy Institute
The Economic Policy Institute is a 501 non-profit, liberal, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy...
, The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy , established in 1976 and based in Washington, DC, is a privately-funded non-profit organization that conducts research on and advocates for greater accountability, transparency and a focus on social justice in the philanthropic sector...
, Women Building for the Future - Future PAC, and The Recreation Wish List Committee of Washington, DC. She is also the President and CEO of Last Word Productions, Inc, a multimedia
Multimedia
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production company. Described by Dr. Cornel West
Cornel West
Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, author, critic, actor, civil rights activist and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America....
as "the most iconoclastic public intellectual in the country", Dr. Malveaux contributes to the public dialogue on issues such as race, culture, gender, and their economic impacts.
She taught at San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University is a public university located in San Francisco, California. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers over 100 areas of study from nine academic colleges...
(1981-1985) and was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, (1985-1992). She has also been visiting faculty at the New School for Social Research, College of Notre Dame (San Mateo, California
San Mateo, California
San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of approximately 100,000 , it is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the east, Belmont to the south,...
), Michigan State University
Michigan State University
Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...
, and Howard University
Howard University
Howard University is a federally chartered, non-profit, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university located in Washington, D.C., United States...
.
June 1, 2007, Dr. Julianne Malveaux became the 15th President of Bennett College
Bennett College
Bennett College is a four-year liberal arts women's college in Greensboro, North Carolina. Founded in 1873, this historically black institution began as a normal school to provide education to newly emancipated slaves. It became a women's college in 1926 and currently serves roughly 780...
for Women in Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the third-largest city by population in North Carolina and the largest city in Guilford County and the surrounding Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. According to the 2010 U.S...
.
Scholarship
Editor- Voices of Vision: African American Women on the Issues (1996)
Co-Editor
- Slipping Through the Cracks: The Status of Black Women (1986)
- The Paradox of Loyalty: An African American Response to the War on Terrorism (2002).
Author
- Sex, Lies, and Stereotypes: Perspectives of a Mad Economist (1994)
- Wall Street, Main Street, and the Side Street: A Mad Economist Takes a Stroll (1999)
- Surviving and Thriving: 365 facts in Black Economic History (2010)
Co-Author
- Unfinished Business: A Democrat and A Republican Take On the 10 Most Important Issues Women Face (2002).
External links
- http://lastwordprod.com
- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Julianne-Malveaux/152281021512201?sk=wall