A WOMAN IN LEADERSHIP, DR. JULIANNE MALVEAUX (born September 22, 1953, in San Francisco, California) is the former President of Bennett College in Greensboro, NC. She is an economist, author, social and political commentator, and businesswoman. She entered Boston College after the 11th grade, and earned BA and MA degrees in economics there in three years. She earned a PhD 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, Dr. Malveauxs 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. Malveaux has appeared regularly on CNN, BET, as well as on Howard Universitys Television show, Evening Exchange. She has appeared on PBSs To The Contrary, KQEDs Forum, ABC’s Politically Incorrect, Fox News Channels The OReilly 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 OBrien as a panelist on CNN in 2008. Dr. Malveaux taught at San Francisco State University (1981–1985) and was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, (1985–1992).[1] 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. On June 1, 2007, Dr. Malveaux became the 15th President of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, North Carolina. After five years of exemplary service, in February 2012, she announced that she would be stepping down from this position in May 2012, saying: While I remain committed to [historically black colleges and universities] and the compelling cause of access in higher education, I will actualize that commitment, now, in other arenas. I will miss Bennett College and will remain one of its most passionate advocates. After leaving Bennett, Malveaux moved to Washington. She gives lectures, travels and is writing a book on poverty. 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 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. In 1990, Malveaux, long with 15 other African American women and men, formed African-American Women for Reproductive Freedom. On August 28, 2014, an “honored and humbled” Dr. Malveaux returned to Bennett College for the unveiling of the Julianne Malveaux Journalism and Media Studies Building. “Bennett College is indebted to the 15th president of Bennett College for her vision, for her work as a public intellectual and her tenacity,” current President Rosalind Fuse-Hall said. She also called her predecessor “a muse for all Bennett Belles.” In her five years at Bennett, Dr. Malveaux led a construction boom that put up the first new campus buildings in 25 years. Among those new buildings were the Willa B. Player Residence Hall, now the largest dorm on campus, and the Global Learning Center, which holds the president’s office and an auditorium. The journalism building was a top-to-bottom overhaul of the school’s former steam plant. It opened in 2009 with 4,800 square feet over three floors. There are two classrooms upstairs, faculty offices on the mezzanine, and a TV and photo studio downstairs. The college has about 60 journalism and media studies majors, making it one of the most popular departments on campus. At Thursday’s ceremony, Dr. Malveaux told the students in the audience that journalism needs to hear the voices of young African American women. “We have stories to tell,” she said. Congratulations, Dr. Malveaux!
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