Keynote Speaker: Kijua Sanders-McMurtry.
Dr. Kijua Sanders-McMurtry serves as the Vice President for Equity and Inclusion at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. She began her time at Mount Holyoke in the summer of 2018 and has been instrumental in the transformative change of the institution including stewarding their anti-racism action plan and establishing the College’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion which supports alums, students, faculty, and staff at the institution.
In addition to diversity education, she has worked in the areas of financial aid, honors education, student development and leadership, and Title IX. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at Agnes Scott, Atlanta Technical College, Mount Holyoke, Georgia State University and the University of Georgia. Her background also includes time spent as a public health research associate with ORC Macro, International.
Sanders-McMurtry holds a Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies, a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies, as well as Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Sociology from Georgia State University. A high school dropout, she credits her non-traditional academic journey to her mentors at Pasadena City College, where she completed an associate’s degree in social sciences.
