Keynote Speaker for 5th Annual Leadership Symposium: Dafina Lazarus Stewart, Ph.D.
We are pleased to annouce that Dafina Lazarus Steward will be the Keynote Speaker at the 2012 Leadership Symopsium.
Dafina Lazarus Stewart, Ph.D.
Dafina Lazarus Stewart, Ph.D. is a higher education scholar, teaching and researching primarily in the areas of identity intersectionality, experiences and outcomes of racially minoritized college students, and broad issues of diversity and social justice. Currently on sabbatical, Dr. Stewart is researching racial discourses and the experiences of Black college students attending private, liberal arts colleges in the Great Lakes region of the United States from 1945 until 1965. Central to Dr. Stewart’s mission and values is to use her teaching and research to transform individual lives and communities toward greater inclusion and to enact social justice.
Dr. Stewart is a full-time faculty member in the Department of Higher Education and Student Affairs and an affiliated faculty member with the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Bowling Green State University. She has delivered keynote addresses and facilitated workshops and presentations at BGSU and several other colleges and universities and non-profit groups. Community colleges, research universities, and private liberal arts institutions have invited Dr. Stewart to share on topics ranging from multicultural competence, ethics, interfaith cooperation, spiritual development, identity intersectionality, leadership, and success in college.
