Becoming a Diversity Leader

Today’s episode features three authors of chapters in a new book Becoming a Diversity Leader: Navigating Identity and Situational Pressures. While diversity leaders exist at all administrative ranks and levels across both academic and student affairs. Today’s episode focuses on the senior diversity officer role. Often a senior administrator or vice president or chancellor, senior diversity officer often wears a number of significant hats. They might be charged to lead university-level DEI strategic planning, to assess campus climate and implement equity initiatives within departments, and to respond to immediate DEI crises including bias incidents and hate crimes. Joining host Heather Shea are Raul Leon, Brighid Dwyer (Ajunwa), and Kelli Perkins.