Valerie Kinloch

Valerie Kinloch (born January 30, 1974) is an American writer, educator, and academic administrator. She is the president of the Johnson C. Smith University starting in August 2023 and also served as the Renée and Richard Goldman Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.

Quotes

• We ought to have a discourse of love that we enact and practice in all of our spaces and in the work that we do. Not exclusively with children and young adults, but with each other.
  • "Listen: Dr. Valerie Kinloch on Building and Sustaining a Racially Responsive Community" (May 18, 2018)

• I guess am a poet because I love to reframe complicated ideas into prose and poems that grab at heartstrings.
  • "Homecoming: JCSU President Dr. Valerie Kinloch Returns to Her Roots", Pride Magazine (February 28, 2024)