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Bobby William Austin, Ph.D.
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Dr. Austin is Vice President for University Relations and Communications at the University of the District of Columbia. In this position, he directs the Offices of Cable Television, Government Affairs, Development, Board Relations, Marketing, Communications, Alumni Relations, and Web Development. He brings an extensive background as a sociologist, foundation executive, college administrator, editor and policy consultant in Education and the Humanities to his work.
He serves as the Chairman of the Planning Committee on the Status of African American Men, convened by Congressman Danny Davis, (D) Ill. He is also a founder of the People’s Assembly and editor of its publication, Serius B. In addition, Dr. Austin is a founding fellow of the National Endowment for Public Trust and Director of its Justice Task Force.
Dr. Austin was the founding President of the Village Foundation where he served for five years. The Foundation focused on the development of African American men. He recently served as Acting Vice President for Student Affairs at the University of the District of Columbia. He is the former Executive Director of the National Task Force on African-American Men and Boys which produced the groundbreaking report, Repairing the Breach: Key Ways to Support Family life, Reclaim our Streets and Rebuild Civil Society in America’s Communities. From 1990 to1997, Dr Austin held various positions at the WK Kellogg Foundation, including Director of the African-American Men and Boys Initiative and Assistant Director of the Kellogg National Fellowship Program.
Austin was the founding editor of the Urban League Review, the National Research and Policy Journal of the National Urban League. He has a number of monographs, articles and artistic works to his credit. His most recent book is Wake Up and Start to Live: An Analysis of a Gallup Poll and A Statistical Profile of African American Men, 1990-2000, with Joseph McCormick and Brian Gilmore, University Press of America, 2003. He is also author of What a Piece of Work is Man, a monograph published by WK Kellogg Foundation in 1992. His articles include, Twenty-First Century Leadership in the African American Community, with United Nations Ambassador, Andrew Young, in The Community of the Future, edited by Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, Richard Beskhard, Richard F.Schubert, the Drucker Foundation, 1998 and Towards a Theory of Cultural Leadership in Concepts, Challenges, and Realities of Leadership: An International Perspective, Selected Proceedings from the Salzburg Seminar on International Leadership edited by James MacGregor Burns, Georgia Sorenson, and Larraine Matusak
He has worked in numerous capacities at the University of the District of Columbia including Special Assistant to the Board of Trustees, Ronald H. Brown Chair; and Special Assistant for Educational Licensure for the District of Columbia. Austin served as a campaign speech writer and issues director in the mayoral campaign of Patricia Roberts Harris as well as for Washington DC Mayor, the Honorable Sharon Pratt. He also served as Special Consultant on American Culture to the Honorable Joseph Duffey at the National Endowment for the Humanities and as Staff Director and Research Coordinator for the District of Columbia Statehood Constitutional Convention.
Dr. Austin earned a B.A. Degree in Economics and Sociology from Western Kentucky University; an M.A. in Sociology from Fisk University; and a PhD in Sociology from McMaster University in Canada. In addition, he has received a diploma from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and an Honorary Doctorate for Public Service from Central Michigan University.
He is a recipient of the Kellogg National Fellowship Award and is listed in Who’s Who in Black America, Outstanding Young Men of America, the International Dictionary of Biographies and the International Edition of Men of Achievement. Austin is a Mahatma Gandhi Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Dr. Austin serves as a board member for the National Housing Trust, the Council for the Advancement of Adult Literacy, and the World Policy Board of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He is Operational Chair, Centennial Family Symposium Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc; Chairman, The Year of the African American Male; Co-Convener of the Secretariat for African American Civil Society Leaders; and Co-Convener of the United States Assembly
He has served on the boards of the National Institute for Urban Wildlife, the D.C. Repertory and the Capitol Ballet of Washington D.C.; and as a member of the Atlantic Council of the United States, the Global Education Association, the American Culture Association and the American Sociological Association.
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