Living Academic Research
Dr. Donna Y. Ford
How to Become a Leading Educational Consultant?
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@donnayford

R.A.C.E. (Research, Advocacy, Collaboration, Empowerment)

Dr. Donna Y. Ford​

Joining guest host Michel Davis Robinson on this segment of Living Academic Research to discuss how educators and researchers can become high demand educational consultant is Dr. Donna Y. Ford.
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Donna Y. Ford, PhD, is a Professor of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University. She is the former Betts Chair of Education & Human Development, and currently holds a joint appointment in the Department of Special Education and Department of Teaching and Learning. Dr. Ford has been a Professor of Special Education at the Ohio State University, an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Virginia, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky. Professor Ford earned her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Urban Education (educational psychology) (1991), Masters of Education degree (counseling) (1988), and Bachelor of Arts degree in communications and Spanish (1984) from Cleveland State University. ​

R.A.C.E. (Research, Advocacy, Collaboration, Empowerment) 

Started in 2013, R.A.C.E. (Research, Advocacy, Collaboration, Empowerment) Mentoring is an initiative and program co-founded by Drs. Donna Y. Ford, Michelle Trotman Scott and Malik S. Henfield. The goal of this virtual group is to provide mentoring to faculty and doctoral/graduate students of color, increase the representation of faculty of color on campuses and within the tenure pool, and to promote collaboration among academics in all educational settings (P-12, higher education) and at all types of colleges and universities (e.g., HBCU and PWI, private and public, online).

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