Dr. Julianne Malveaux is the 15th President of Bennett College for Women and is a leading edge intellectual whose provocative, insight filled observations are helping to shape public opinion in 21st century America. Dr. Malveaux, an MIT trained economist, is a writer and syndicated columnist whose thoughts on national affairs, the American workplace and the economy appear each week in more than twenty newspapers nationally, including the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Examiner, and The Detroit News. Dr. Malveaux writes a monthly column for USA Today, and the journal Black Issues in Higher Education. She is also a frequent contributor to national magazines such as Essence, Ms., Crisis, Emerge, Black Enterprise, and The Progressive, focusing on a wide range of issues, including politics, economics, gender, and race.

Dr. Malveaux has made many appearances on national television and has been a commentator or expert guest panelist on CNN, BET, the Fox News Channel, MSNBC, C SPAN, and CNBC. She has hosted talk radio programs and is a frequent talk radio guest.

Dr. Malveaux has taught economics, public policy, and African American Studies. In 1998, she held the Sister Julie Catherine Cunningham Chair at the College of Notre Dame and has been a faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley, and an affiliated scholar at Stanford University. Malveaux has also worked on staff at the Council of Economic Advisors, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New School for Social Research, and San Francisco State University. She has been affiliated with the Institute for the Study of Research on Women and Gender at Stanford (1987-89).

Dr. Malveaux is co editor of Slipping Through The Cracks: The Status of Black Women and authored Sex, Lies, and Stereotypes: Perspectives of a Mad Economist, an anthology of her newspaper columns. Her collection of columns, Wall Street, Main Street, and the Side Street: A Mad Economist Takes A Stroll, was published in January 1999.

Julianne Malveaux received BA and MA degrees in economics from Boston College. She earned a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.