About Dr. Tara T. Green
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Though born in Waukegan, Ill, Dr. Green is a self-professed Southern girl. From ages 8 until adulthood, she lived with her parents in a New Orleans suburb where she attended Catholic schools. She attended Dillard University, a small private HBCU in New Orleans and went on to receive her MA and PhD in English from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. After teaching for three years at Southern University, an HBCU, she taught in northern Arizona. Her experiences as the only specialist in African American Studies at the university—at times the only African American woman with a doctorate on faculty--and as President of the city's NAACP branch highly informed her perspectives on the importance of racial and gender diversity. The author and editor of two books and numerous articles on gender and race, she currently directs the African American Studies Program at UNCG. Dr. Green remains an active member of the NAACP in Greensboro and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. As a scholar of the African diaspora, Dr. Green enjoys traveling to Africa and the Caribbean.