Julianne Malveaux

Dr. Julianne Malveaux (born September 22 1953 in San Francisco, California) is the 15th president of Bennett College. She is an African-American economist, author, commentator, and businesswoman.

Education and Career

Malveaux received her BA and MA degrees in economics from Boston College in three years, and earned a Ph.D in economics from MIT. She holds honorary degrees from Benedict College, Sojourner-Douglass College and the University of the District of Columbia.

As a writer and syndicated columnist, her 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, and the San Francisco Examiner.

Dr. Malveaux has appeared regularly on CNN, BET, as well as on Howard University's Television show, Evening Exchange. She has appeared on PBS's To The Contrary, ABC’s Politically Incorrect, Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly 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 O'Brian as a panelist on CNN in 2008.

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 [1]. Described by Dr. 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.

As of June 1 2007 Dr. Julianne Malveaux became the 15th President of Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Controversy

On the November 4 1994 episode of the PBS talk show, To the Contrary, Malveaux summed up her feelings regarding Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas:

"The man is on the Court. You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early, like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that’s how I feel. He is an absolutely reprehensible person."

Five years later, the conservative Media Research Center singled out Malveaux for recognition, of sorts, bestowing on her one of its "Dishonor Awards for the Decade's Most Outrageous Liberal Bias", with Justice Thomas accepting the award "on behalf of" Malveaux in her absence.

Scholarship

Editor

• Voices of Vision: African American Women on the Issues (1996)

Co-Editor

• Slipping Through the Cracks: The Status of Black Women (1986)
• The Paradox of Loyalty: An African American Response to the War on Terrorism (2002).

Author

• Sex, Lies, and Stereotypes: Perspectives of a Mad Economist (1994)
• Wall Street, Main Street, and the Side Street: A Mad Economist Takes a Stroll (1999)

Co-Author

• Unfinished Business: A Democrat and A Republican Take On the 10 Most Important Issues Women Face (2002).

Quotes

"I aced the SAT's, so I'm in the catbird seat there." - asserted on an appearance on Fox News Channel.

"Compromise isn't in my vocabulary."

"What are black folks doing in Utah?"

"The man is on the Court. You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that’s how I feel. He is an absolutely reprehensible person."- regarding Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas [4 November 1994]

External links

• Official site