Anita Nahal, Ph.D., CDP
Anita lives in NJ, USA with her son, her blessing. She loves writing… poetry, for children, on diversity, inclusion, unconscious bias and on any other topic that captures her imagination; loves dancing, and interior home designing. In between she is a diversity, inclusion & unconscious bias trainer, and has been a professor, administrator and historian. Certified Diversity Professional (CDP), Anita is also the Founder & Chairperson of www.diversitydiscover.com
Some of Anita’s past professional positions include: Assistant Provost for International Programs, Howard University; Visiting Associate Professor, Binghamton University; Associate Professor, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, India; Adjunct Professor, George Mason University; and Mellon Fellowship Program Administrator, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. She has been actively involved in research and publication in various areas such as diversity and inclusion, unconscious bias, US history, African American Women’s History and Modern India. She has held many visiting research positions including, Visiting Scholar of Gender, University of California, Berkeley, Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Binghamton University, and an NEH Summer Seminar Award. Besides two academic books, Nahal has one book of poems and three children’s books, and over 30 articles in journals and blogs. She writes periodically on LinkedIn. Anita most recent data oriented study on Ethnic and Cultural Diversity at HBCUs was published as a chapter in a book in 2015. Her recent poems can be found in Aberration Labyrinth and Confluence.
Anita has travelled to 15 countries and speaks three foreign languages, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu. She is deeply involved in community service in women’s & children’s issues, diversity & multiculturalism, education achievement gap and Medicare. More info on Anita is available at: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/anita-nahal-ph-d/19/79a/862
Anita Nahal has one son, her blessing, Vikrant. Her parents, both having passed, were well known educationists. Her father, Dr. Chaman Nahal, was a well-known novelist, writer, professor, and winner of the Sahitya Akademi award (1975) for his classic novel in English on the partition of India, AZADI, and mother, Dr. Sudarshna Nahal was principal of a k-12 public school in New Delhi, India.
Website: www.diversitydiscover.com
Blog: http://diversitydiscover.blogspot.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/diversitydiscov
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