Linda C. Tillman

Guest Speaker

Dr. Linda C. Tillman is Professor Emerita of
Educational Leadership in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and is currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Tillman
is a former public-school educator with high school teaching and administrative experience. Dr. Tillman’s research and scholarship is focused on school leadership, the education of African Americans in K-12, mentoring in higher education, and culturally sensitive research approaches. Dr. Tillman serves on the advisory boards of TheHistoryMakers and the Black Education Research Collective at Teachers
College-Columbia University. Dr. Tillman was also the recent recipient of the inaugural Linda C. Tillman Social & Racial Justice Award named in her honor. Read about it here.