January 2022

Dr. Yanique Redwood, a values-driven and innovative leader with decades of combined experience in racial equity, community-based participatory research and philanthropy, will serve as the Center’s first Executive Director.

“Dr. Redwood is an exceptional and committed leader, manager, visionary, and fighter for racial justice. And she’s a warm human being,” says Dr. Kendi. “I couldn’t be more delighted that she has joined us, that she will lead us.”

Tough yet Easy

I met Ibram on October 5, 2017. Tamara Copeland, then president of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers, and I met him for lunch a few weeks after his arrival at American University. We wanted to learn more about this scholar coming into town talking about antiracism. A Center for Antiracism at that. On a […]

Dr. Yanique Redwood To Join BU Center for Antiracist Research As Executive Director

Dr. Yanique Redwood, a values-driven and innovative leader with decades of combined experience in racial equity, community-based participatory research and philanthropy, will be joining The Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. The Center was founded in 2020 by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, one of America’s foremost antiracist scholars and the author of several books, including […]