Joy L. Wiggins

Joy L. Wiggins, Ph.D., received her doctorate from The Ohio State University in multicultural education and social justice. She is the founder and CEO of Joy Wiggins, PhD: Equity and Inclusion Consulting which provides speaking, facilitation and mentorship opportunities on the topics of power, privilege, racial and gender justice and liberation. She has spent the last 20 years working on understanding our cultural identities and perceptions of how we navigate the world through our cultural identities. Her consulting centers around understanding biases and women supporting women in the workplace. She teaches culture, equity and advocacy, literacy and English language learning in the Elementary Education department at Western Washington University.

She has presented her research through invited, keynote and peer-reviewed sessions at the American Educational Research Association, American Educational Studies Association, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry among many others and she has published in several educational journals on her work around social justice in education such as the Urban Review, Democracy and Education and Journal of Children’s Literature.

Based on her 2017 TEDxWWU talk, she and Dr. Kami J. Anderson wrote, “From Sabotage to Support: A New Vision for Feminist Solidarity in the Workplace” and is available now.

WEBSITE: www.joywiggins.com.

TWITTER: @DrJoyGPP

INSTAGRAM: @Drjoywiggins

FACEBOOK: @joywigginsGPP