Faculty and Staff

Patricia Parker Patricia S. Parker, PhD

Associate Professor, UNC-Chapel Hill

Patricia Parker (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin) is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Parker’s research, teaching, and community activism focus on the intersections of race, gender, class and power in organization processes, with an emphasis on girls’ and women’s leadership practices as sites for resistance and empowerment.

Her publications include a book on African American women’s executive leadership (Erlbaum, 2005), as well as several articles and book chapters appearing in edited volumes and journals.

Her current work, supported by a Kauffman fellowship for social entrepreneurship, is a participatory action research project engaging young women in low-income neighborhoods to become advocates for positive change and social justice in their communities.

Emerging Leaders in Public Health

Presented by:
NC Institute for Public Health, part of the Gillings School of Global Public Health, and Kenan-Flagler Business School, at the The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Contact: Monecia Thomas, MHA, Director, Emerging Leaders in Public Health
CB# 8165, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8165
Phone: 919-843-8541 Fax: 919-843-2629
emergingleaders@unc.edu

Updated 9/23/08