Michele Tuck-Ponder presents "Where Have All the Black Women Gone?"
From the presenter:
In 2021-23 Princeton Public Schools appeared to be a welcoming place for Black women to lead and excel. The positions of Superintendent, Principal of Riverside School, a seat on the Board of Education and Supervisors of Math, Science and Humanities as well as
several counselors were held by Black women. Today, a single Black woman remains in administrative leadership at PPS. What happened? Black Women leaders in Education have historically promoted anti-racism, while being victimized by racism. This talk will focus on the
intersectional challenges (gender and race) faced by Black women in educational leadership.
About the presenter:
Michele Tuck-Ponder, Esq., is the Chief Executive Officer of Destination Imagination Inc., a global creative problem solving program for young people. A former mayor of Princeton, she also completed two terms as a member of the Princeton Board of Education. She has served as Executive Director of the Women’s Fund of New Jersey, CEO of the Girl Scouts of Delaware-Raritan, Inc., assistant counsel to former Governor Jim Florio, assistant director of the New Jersey Division on Women and New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, director of development and public affairs at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and congressional aide to former US Representative Louis Stokes and the late US Senator Frank Lautenberg. She also was a Community Builder Fellow with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in Camden and has served as a lecturer at Princeton and Rutgers Universities. Michele is a former trustee of New Jersey After 3, Princeton United Methodist Church, Leadership New Jersey and the Center for NonProfit Corporations, Morven Museum and Gardens, the PrincetonHousing Authority and the United Front Against Riverblindness. A graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Tuck-Ponder is married to Rhinold Lamar Ponder, Esq. and is the mother of two children, Jamaica and William D’Artagnan.
