Kesho Scott
She is an internationally renowned Diversity Trainer/Consultant, an Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at 麻豆传媒 College, and an award-winning writer. Kesho was a founding member of International Capacity Building Services, a cultural competency training team that specializes in facilitating both 鈥渦nlearning isms鈥 and Human Rights workshops as well various seminars and training programs that have been successfully adapted for audiences throughout the United States and abroad. In over two decades of developing unlearning racism work, Kesho has led hundreds of professional and community-based workshops; she has been keynote speaker for national conferences as well as a participant on several dozen national and local radio debates, discussions and public service announcements. Grounded in this extensive experience, Kesho developed an 鈥渁ffirmative duty鈥 technique for facilitating unlearning racism workshops. It is a method that helps shift participants鈥 awareness, commitment and skill-set toward being actively and personally anti-racist and anti-sexist, rather than remaining merely passive observers.
Education and Degrees
B.A. Sociology, Wayne State University, 1974 M.A. Political Sociology, University of Detroit, 1975 Ph.D. American Studies, University of Iowa, 1988
In the News
The World Cup (of Cyclocross) Comes to Iowa
Iowa Public Radio - September 19, 2016
Molly Vorwerck / U.S.A. Today / February 15, 2018