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Equity & Difference

Waking Up to Privilege Systems: Putting Unearned Power to New Uses

Tues. April 11, 2017      7:30 p.m.

Kane Hall 120

This lecture has reached capacity. As a courtesy, the Graduate School will offer standby seating on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 6:45 pm in Kane Hall. Any reserved seats not taken by 7:15 pm will be offered to our guests in the standby line.

Acclaimed scholar Peggy McIntosh will share at least 16 specific actions that can lead to a more just society and world and begin to untangle the net of unearned advantages and disadvantages that lift some up while pushing others down.

Admission is free, but advance registration is strongly recommended.


Peggy McIntoshPeggy McIntosh, Ph.D., former associate director of the Wellesley Centers for Women, is also the founder and now Senior Associate of the National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity & Diversity). SEED helps teachers and community members create their own local, year-long, peer-led seminars in which participants use their own experiences and those of their students, children and colleagues to widen and deepen school and college curricula and make communities and workplaces more inclusive.

Dr. McIntosh directs the Gender, Race, and Inclusive Education Project, which provides workshops on privilege systems, feelings of fraudulence and diversifying workplaces, curricula and teaching methods. Dr. McIntosh has taught English, American studies and women’s studies at the Brearley School, Harvard University, Trinity College (Washington, D.C.), Durham University (England) and Wellesley College.

She is co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute and has been consulting editor to Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women. In 1993–1994, she consulted with women on 22 campuses in Asia on the development of Women’s Studies and programs to bring materials from Women’s Studies into the main curriculum. In addition to having four honorary degrees, she is a recipient of the Klingenstein Award for Distinguished Educational Leadership from Columbia Teachers College. She earned her doctorate degree from Harvard University.

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