Ricardo Guthrie

Ricardo Guthrie (COM’84) of El Cajon, Calif., was appointed Distinguished Associate Professor of Social Justice at Fisk University in August. He was also awarded a $189,860 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to run a workshop for educators, titled Racialized Spaces on Route 66, during summer 2023. Ricardo was named the 2022 Dan Shilling Public Humanities Scholar of 2022 and the 2021 Arizona Informant Newsmaker of the Year. He edited a young adult book, Malcolm X: Get to Know the Civil Rights Activist (Capstone Press, 2020), written by Ebony Joy Wilkins. You can email him at ricardoguthrie7@gmail.com.