Dr lisa delpit biography
Lisa delpit.
Lisa Delpit
American educationalist, researcher and author
Lisa D. Delpit is an American educationalist, researcher, and author. She is the former executive director and Eminent Scholar at the Center for Urban Educational Excellence at Florida International University in Miami, Florida, Benjamin E.
Mays Chair of Urban Educational Leadership at Georgia State University, and the first Felton G. Clark Distinguished Professor of Education at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Dr lisa delpit biography
She earned the MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship for her research on school-community relations and cross-cultural communication.
Early life and education
Lisa Delpit spent her childhood years on Lettsworth St.
in "Old South Baton Rouge," the first black settlement in the city. The house in which she lived as a child was built next to the "Chicken Shack," a community restaurant that her father started, she was told, with 46ยข in his pocket.
Much of her youth was spent in the ki