Chief Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Officer & Vice President at the University of Maryland, Baltimore
About
Dr. Diane Forbes Berthoud is the inaugural vice president and chief diversity officer of the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Previously, she held key positions at the University of California, San Diego as the associate vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion and academic director. Dr. Forbes Berthoud also held faculty roles at George Mason and Trinity University, was a senior fellow at the University of Maryland and faculty fellow at Georgetown University. Diane's research focuses on gendered, racial, and intersectional processes of organizing. Her research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and books, most notably a book chapter on the Psychodynamics of Race which was published by Harvard University Press. She has presented her work at multiple conferences and symposia including the International Fulbright Conference and the Gender and Work Symposium at Harvard University. Diane received her MA and PhD in Organizational Communication and Social Psychology from Howard University.
Current Work:
Diane's research focuses on gendered, racial, and intersectional processes of organizing with particular attention to social and political experiences of Black women and women of color. Her work was recently published in the 2019 Harvard University Press book, Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience. One of her recent works also appeared in Gender, Communication, and the Leadership Gap (2017), a volume in the International Leadership Association Series, Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice, and she recently published a book chapter "Black women's Embodied Identities at the Nexus of Political Movements: Intersectionality, Resistance, and Power in the Post-Obama era" in The Personal Is Political: Body Politics in a Trump World (2020). She is currently working on a book project on Race, Gender, and Leadership in the Public Imagination and how they are inextricably linked and corrupted in organizational and political life.
Research Area(s):
- race; leadership development; Black women's/Black feminist studies; equity, diversity, and inclusion; organizational development and change.
