Shedding the Chrysalis Black Women Leading in Higher Education

Olga M. Welch is professor and dean emerita in the School of Education at Duquesne University. She has published widely on executive mentoring, social justice, equity, and diversity, including an edited volume, Turnaround Leadership: Deans of Color as Change Agents. She was a member of the US Department of Health's African American Health Care Congress, the African American Pre-Natal Issues Task Force, and currently is an inaugural fellow for the Initiative on Race, Research, and Justice at Vanderbilt University. With Carolyn R. Hodges, she partners in Welch and Hodges, LLC, Higher Education Consultants and Leadership Training.

Carolyn R. Hodges is professor emerita of German studies and former vice provost and dean of the Graduate School at the University of Tennessee. Her publications focus on Black German Literature, comparative literature, and leadership. Past activities include service as chair of the Committee on the Recruitment and Retention of Minorities for the American Association of Teachers of German and as president of the Southern Comparative Literature Association. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Arcadia University and serves on the board of the Georgiana Simpson Society for German Diaspora Studies. With Olga M. Welch, she partners in Welch and Hodges, LLC, Higher Education Consultants and Leadership Training.