A Conversation with Dr. Theresa Hammond

Dr. Theresa Hammond is Professor of Accounting and Senior Assistant Dean for Diversity Equity and Inclusion at the Lam Family College of Business at San Francisco State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research on African-American and Black South African accountants has been published in many outlets, including the NAACP’s Crisis Magazine and the Urban League’s State of Black America. She interviewed more than thirty of the first 100 Black CPAs while researching her book, A White-Collar Profession: African-American certified public accountants since 1921 (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). She is actively involved in ACAP, NABA (member since 1988), ALPFA, the PhD Project, and the Diversity Section of the American Accounting Association. In 2004 she testified on the under-representation of African Americans in finance professions before a Congressional subcommittee. She was chosen as the 2021 Distinguished Alumna by the University of Wisconsin Department of Accounting and Information Systems.Purchase Dr. Hammond's book at:https://uncpress.org/book/9780807853771/a-white-collar-profession/