KELISHA B. GRAVES

Dr. Kelisha B. Graves is a scholar-educator, author, speaker, and university professor. Dr. Graves teaches and works at the intersection of education and the global Africana experience. She embraces a mission to create high-impact learning journeys that lead to transformational outcomes for all people.

Dr. Graves holds a doctorate in education with a concentration in higher education. She has delivered keynote lectures and presentations to audiences around the world. She has authored/co-authored works in the fields of education, African American history, and philosophy. Her book, Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959 was published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2019 and represents the first work of its kind to focus on the intellectual history of Nannie Helen Burroughs, an early 20th-century institution-builder. Her next book project, The Next Hundred Years, will look US-Africa relations at the nexus of higher education and development with an eye toward defining new trajectories for sustainability, shared value,
and policymaking.