MIT World Speakers

Dr. Julianne Malveaux PhD '80

Dr. Julianne Malveaux is an economist, author and commentator. Her work appears regularly in USA Today, Black Issues in Higher Education, Ms., Essence, and The Progressive. Her weekly columns appear in numerous newspapers across the country including The Los Angeles Times, and The Detroit Free Press. She is a frequent commentator on television programs such as PBS’s "To The Contrary", and ABC’s "Politically Incorrect". She is the editor of Voices of Vision: African American Women on the Issues (1996); the co-editor of Slipping Through the Cracks: The Status of Black Women (1986), and of The Paradox of Loyalty: An African American Response to the War on Terrorism (Third World Press, 2002). ). She is most recently the co-author of Unfinished Business: A Democrat and A Republican Take On the 10 Most Important Issues Women Face (Perigee Trade, 2002.)

Dr. Malveaux received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from Boston College, and earned a Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 1980. She taught at San Francisco University from 1981 to 1985 and served as visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1985 to 1992.