Julianne Malveaux

Dr. Malveaux is an economic writer and syndicated columnist whose weekly column appears nationally in some 20 newspapers. She has written the "Left Coast" column for Emerge Magazine, and has written a colunm, "Economics and You" for Essence Magazine. She is also a regular contributor to Ms. and USA Today, and a weekly contributor to the San Francisco Sun Reporter. Malveaux's academic and popular writing appears in other magazines, newspapers, and journals. She was recently (through May, 1996) host and executive producer of a news and public affairs show, based in Washington, DC, The Julianne Malveaux Show. The show was produced by her company, Last Word Productions, and was heard in a dozen markets nationally. Malveaux also provides regular radio and television commentary on sociopolitical issues, especially on CNN's CNN and Company, as a panelist on the PBS show To The Contrary. As a television personality, Malveaux has also hosted teleconferences for Black Issues in Higher Education on topics ranging from Black Studies to Campus Gender Relations. As a scholar, Malveaux has most recently (through 1991) been visiting faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in the African American Studies Department. Her research focuses on the labor market and public policy and the impact of such policy on women and minorities. She was coeditor of the book, Slipping Through The Cracks: The Status of Black Women (Transactions Publications, 1986), and is the author of a collection of columns, Sex, Lies and Stereotypes: Perspectives of a Mad Economist (Pines One, 1994). Popular on the lecture circuit, Julianne Malveaux speaks to some 50 civic, academic, business, and professional groups a year. Significant speeches include an address on diversity to the New York Times Leisure Magazines Group (Golf Digest - and associated magazines), to the Indianapolis Conference on the Status of Women, to the Urban Studies Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, and to the National Black Child Development Institute's annual conference. She has also spoken to the Council on Foundations, Gallaudet University, senior staff at the Department of Labor, and other groups. Her colleague, Dr. Cornel West, has described her as "the most provocative, progressive and iconoclastic public intellectual in the country." Malveaux has worked on staff on the Council of Economic Advisors, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New School for Social Research, San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley. She has been affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Research on Women and Gender at Stanford (1987-89) and has done consulting for a women's and civil rights organizations including the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, and others.