SUPERB WOMAN: Whitney Peoples, PhD

Dr. Whitney Peoples is the inaugural director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. Dr. Peoples previously served as a director in Educational Development and Assessment Services and coordinator of DEI Initiatives and Critical Race Pedagogies. A Fort Worth native, this author was a visiting assistant professor at Texas Woman’s University and Provost Post-Doctoral Fellow at UTA. Whitney earned a PhD in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University, an MA in Women’s Studies from the University of Cincinnati, and a BA in Political Science from Agnes Scott College. She has spoken and written on the intersections of race, gender, health, and popular culture, taught broadly in the area of Women’s and Gender Studies and African American Studies, and published critical essays on topics including reproductive justice, Black feminist health science studies, advertising for oral contraceptives, and representations of women in African American film. Whitney is the co-founder of the Black Feminist Health Science Studies, which aims to highlight the necessity of incorporating social justice into medical science.