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Distinguished University Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies, College of Arts & Science, and Distinguished University Professor of Ethics and Society, The Divinity School, and NEH Centennial Professor at Vanderbilt University — is one of America’s premier public intellectuals and author of over 20 books, including seven New York Times bestsellers. 

His latest national bestseller is “Entertaining Race: Performing Blackness in America.” He also wrote “A Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America”, whose purpose, the “Washington Post” says is “bare the deep wounds left by generations of White-authored violence,” while praising the author for being “poetic, as Dyson riffs from one subject to the next and from the historical to the contemporary with the improvisational flair of a jazzman.” A political analyst for MSNBC, Dyson is recipient of two NAACP Image Awards, an American Book Award, a Southern Book Prize, and the 2020 Langston Hughes Festival Medallion.

Marcia L. Dyson is one of America’s most respected civic-social activists and communication specialist. Dyson is the founder of Women’s Global Initiative (WGI), a for-profit entity to enhance the lives of women via “profitable and purposeful social engagement.” WGI services include exclusive event planning, building strategic partnerships and a speaker’s bureau.

Dyson has served as the first chief of staff for Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jr.’s Operation Push International Trade Bureau in 1980. She served as the Public Information Officer (POI) for the Mayor’s Office of Special Events for the City of Chicago, where she built bridges across the diverse 87 ethnic communities through cultural diplomacy and world-class events.

Dyson is a member of many women’s organizations what advocate for gender equality, social justice, and political reform.

She created a global campaign for Uber which would benefit over one million women and was presented during the UN Women’s CSW59/Beijing+ 20 platform.

She is a board member of the Richard Wright Public Charter High School for Journalism and Performing Arts. She is also the executive director of R.O.S.E. organization, a non-profit that Rescues, help victims to Overcome, Sexual Exploitation (i.e. human trafficking).

All of her work affords Dyson the opportunity to address the interlocking and converging interests and issues that define her vocation: gender inequality and oppression, economic, just governance, political inequity, moral marketing and branding, and local, national, and international affairs.