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Name
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Sheila Smith McKoy
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Bio
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Sheila Smith McKoy (BA- North Carolina State University, MA-University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Ph.D.- Duke University) is Vice Provost of Equity, Inclusion, and Faculty Excellence at the University of San Francisco. As a trained mediator, Smith McKoy also specializes in restorative justice praxis. A former provost, Smith McKoy has served in leadership positions at numerous universities. In 1994, Smith McKoy was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in English from Duke University. She is widely published in the areas of race and difference, mentorship, literature and culture, and mentorship. Her books include the seminal text understanding white race riots When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Cultures, which has been continuously in publication since 2001. She is co-editor of Teaching Literature and Writing in Prisons and Recovering the African Feminine Divine in Literature, the Arts, and Performing Arts: Yemonja Awakening (2020). She is the editor of The Elizabeth Keckley Reader: Writing Self, Writing Nation (2016) and The Elizabeth Keckley Reader: Artistry, Culture, and Commerce (2017). In addition to her scholarly work, Smith McKoy is an award-winning poet, fiction writer, and filmmaker. She is the recipient of the 2020 Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Prize in poetry. She is the Co-author of an award-winning anthology, One Window’s Light: A Haiku Collection., an anthology written by five Black poets. She values the art of storytelling in the process of institutional and social change. Her poetry collection, The Bones Beneath, is forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2024. Smith McKoy has also written, produced, and directed three films including Maama Watali and Luwero: A Conversation about War, Peace, and Gender (2017).
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Affiliation
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ice Provost of Equity, Inclusion, and Faculty Excellence
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Position
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The University of San Francisco.
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