Superb Woman: Dr. Julianne Malveaux

Dr. Malveaux has been described by Cornel West as “the most iconoclastic public intellectual in the country.”

Dr. Julianne Malveaux is President Emerita of Bennett College for Women. She entered Boston College after the 11th grade, and earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics in three years and also was initiated into the Iota chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. 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.Dr. Malveaux has held positions in womens, civil rights, and policy organizations, including President of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women’s Clubs Inc. She serves on the boards of the Economic Policy Institute, The Recreation Wish List Committee of Washington, DC, and the Liberian Education Trust. She taught at San Francisco State University and was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, New School for Social Research, College of Notre Dame (San Mateo, California), Michigan State University, and Howard University. Dr. Malveaux is an economist, author, and Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at Cal State LA. She is also President of PUSH Excel, the education arm of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.