Ishwanzya D. Rivers, Ph.D., is UofL Health’s inaugural diversity, equity and inclusion manager. She joined UofL Health after seven years as a faculty member at University of Louisville in the Educational Leadership, Evaluation and Organizational Development department. Dr. Rivers received her Ph.D. in educational policy studies from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research examines the access minorities have within social institutions (i.e., education systems, health care and governmental entities). She wrote “If They Don’t Make a Place for Us, We Should Make a Place for Ourselves: African American Women and Nursing at State Community College,” in “Black Women in Leadership: Their Historical and Contemporary Contributions”; co-wrote “Dear Mr. Kozol...Four African American Women Reauthoring Savage Inequalities” and co-wrote“Re-Authoring Savage Inequalities: Narratives of Community Cultural Wealth in Urban Educational Environments”. ISHWANZYA D. RIVERS, PH.D.
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