Irma McClaurin, PhD

This is an Archival Website only; the current website is: http://irmamcclaurin.com


NWSA (National Women's Studies Association) Honors Dr. McClaurin for "Vision and Commitment."

Read about it in the Huffington Post. 

"Shattering Silence...,"McClaurin weighs in on Sexual Harassment in Ms. Magazine


“My pathway from a creative writing literary background to administrator and public anthropologist is a non sequitur. I am a strong example of how it is possible to translate the liberal arts into practical realities.”  
 ~Irma McClaurin

LISTEN UP AS I JOIN A PANEL TO DISCUSS POLITICS, EDUCATION, STANDING ROCK & MORE.  Afterwards, listen to podcast on the Janus Adams Show

Irma McClaurin is a woman of many talents: CEO of Irma McClaurin Solutions, black feminist speaker, award-winning writer, leadership consultant and guru, activist anthropologist, founder of the “Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive,” Executive Coach, diversity champion and consultant, immigration asylum expert witness, feminist and social justice poet, trainer, anthropology and literary researcher and scholar, editor and writing coach. She holds the MFA in English and the MA & PhD in Anthropology.

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Contact: Dr. Irma McClaurin


My Legacy: the Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive 

 UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST RECOGNIZES   DR.MCCLAURIN AS A DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI for 2016

 

Listen to the Acceptance Speech

MCCLAURIN NAMED "NATION'S BEST COLUMN WRITER FOR 2015 BY THE BLACK PRESS OF AMERICA (NNPA)

McClaurin's column, "A Black Mother Weeps for America: STOP KILLING OUR BLACK SONS, earned Insight News of Minneapolis the 1st Place, Emory O. Jackson National Column Award at the 2015 Annual Convention of the NNPA (National Newspaper Publishers) Black Press. The award is named after Emory O. Jackson, a Civil Rights activist and editor of the Birmingham News from 1941-1975.

Soulstrumental.mp3

Music throughout this site provided courtesy of beatmaster, Antonio "Elevation" Allen

 

McClaurin delivered the 2013 MLK keynote for the Scanner Foundation on Technology and Inequality.  View the video.

Read the speech-" Technology: The New Frontier of Inequality or the New American Promise?"


McClaurin on KBOO Portland.mp3

Hear Dr. McClaurin speak with Portland's KBOO's Don Merrill on the world of academia, literature, philanthropy and anthropology.  Click here for the full one hour interview.

 McClaurin featured in film on Education Reform and 1968 Yale Summer High School Program.  View press release.
Read the poem about her Yale Summer High School experience. Read article.

Dr. Kesho Yvonne Scott of Grinnell College inducted into Iowa African American Hall of Fame: https://www.facebook.com/irmadiva2/videos/1760983120820511/?pnref=story

All in the Family: Read about Zena Carlota & "Afro Symphonic Folk"
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Diversity Matters

https://www.teachforamerica.org/top-stories/why-we-cant-stop-talking-about-diversity-and-inclusiveness  

Umn Uroc  In 2013, four years after Dr. McClaurin founded it,  her visionary  legacy of Community Engagement at the University of Minnesota's first Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC) lives on.  Watch the video:


Panel on Black Feminist Anthropolog(ies), November 23, 2013, Annual Meeting of the Association of Anthropology, Chicago.  Read more

 
Panelists: Dr. Irma McClaurin, Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, Dr. Bianca Williams, Corliss D. Heath (PhD student), and Dr. Rachel Watkins. Missing: Dr. Riché Barnes-organizer and Dr. Kimberly E. Simmons