Norrell Edwards

Norrell Edwards is a scholar, educator, and communications consultant for non-profit organizations. Her employment experience and research interests place her work at the nexus of global Black identity, cultural memory, and social justice. This fall Norrell will begin as an Assistant Professor and 75th Anniversary Endowed Professor at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. Previously, Norrell was a Distinguished Lecturer for her alma mater, the CUNY Macaulay Honors College. Before her position at CUNY, Norrell was the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Texas Christian University and prior to that served as the Assistant Director of Education at Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative. With extensive scholarship on the Haitian diaspora, Norrell has published in several peer-review journals and edited collection as well as public work in LA Review of Books, The Grio and the Black Westchester. She also recently joined as a board member for the Feminist Press. Norrell graduated with a BA in English Literature from Hunter’s College followed by a PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park in 20th and 21st Century Black Diaspora Literature.