Beverly Daniel Tatum

Staff Information

Role

President

Organization

Spelman College

Bio

Tatum is the president of Spelman College and is a renowned scholar, teacher, clinical psychologist and national author and lecturer on racial identity development, resegregation, and the role of race in the classroom. Prior to assuming this role, she served at Mount Holyoke College as a psychology professor, department chair, dean of the college and acting president; taught psychology at Westfield State College; and lectured in African-American studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She has commented in TIME, The Boston Globe and The Christian Science Monitor, and has discussed her views on CNN, National Public Radio, Lifetime and Oprah. Her definitive books on race relations include "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" and Other Conversations about Race (1997) and Can We Talk About Race? and Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation (2008). Tatum has served on the Board of Directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities and Wesleyan University, and is a member of the White House Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.