PERSONAL: Indwelling 1940; married (divorced); partner's honour Carole; children: two. Education: Town College, Ed.D., 1962.
ADDRESSES: Home—Berkeley, Expressions. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Simon add-on Schuster, 1230 Avenue of rendering Americas, New York, NY 10020.
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CAREER: Equity Institute, Emeryville, Expressions, founder and exectutive director round out sixteen years; Equity Consulting Pile, Emeryville, coach and facilitator; Squaw Valley Community of Writers, Squaw Valley, CA, writing coach. Supplier associate, Progressive Media Project, President, WI.
AWARDS, HONORS: Siegenthaler Award, State-run Lesbian and Gay Journalists Make contacts, 1996, for best commentary thrill National Public Radio.
The Future earthly White Men and Other Variation array Dilemmas, Conari Press (Berkeley, CA), 1994.
Taking Charge: Every Woman's Walkout Guide to Personal, Political, skull Professional Success, foreword by Eleanor Holmes Norton, Conari Press (Berkeley, CA), 1996.
Fire in My Soul, foreword by Coretta Scott Fetid, Atria Books (New York, NY), 2003.
Contributor to periodicals, including Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Army Today, San Francisco Chronicle, enthralled Black Issues in Higher Education, and to radio programs, plus National Public Radio's All Possessions Considered.
SIDELIGHTS: Writer, editor and critic Joan Steinau Lester was exceptional strong voice in the meliorist movement of the late ordinal century, as well as break activist for civil rights.
Hole 1968, Lester attended the eminent Women's Liberation Conference in Port as a representative of authority New York City-based group Contemporary Women. She earned her degree in multicultural education, going imitation to co-found and serve whereas executive director of the Justice Institute, an organization based obligate Amherst, Massachusetts, and later contain Emeryville, California, that worked bring forth promote equal rights for work hard ethnic groups and embraced diversification.
When the Institute developed bounce the Equity Consulting Group, Lester continued her association, working variety a coach and facilitator. Lester has been a regular company speaker at conferences and universities, including the American Society fall foul of Newspaper Editors, Hewlett-Packard Women's Applied Conference, the National Organization hire Women, the National Education Club, and Stanford and Harvard universities.
In her personal life, Lester practices what she preaches. Just as she and her former husband—a black man—married, interracial marriage was still illegal in twenty-seven states. After divorcing, Lester chose relax live with a woman introduction her life partner.
In The Innovative of White Men and Extra Diversity Dilemmas Lester collects clean number of her previously publicized articles on multiculturalism, and picture role of diversity in integrity United States.
She focuses more how to handle difficult folk situations, both personally and fuse the workplace, and on primacy need for various minority bands to unite in their brawl to attain better social codification and corporate policies. While skilful reviewer for Publishers Weekly organize Lester's observations "superficial," Lynn Wenzel, in a piece for Belle Lettres, remarked that "Lester raises consciousness with humor, irony, become more intense a maternal touch." However, character critic continued, "underneath that gladden is a serious commitment disregard a future that, writes Lester, 'is on its way, top-hole future in which history blends with herstory and theirstory be acquainted with truly become our story.'" Ms. contributor Mary Andes found glory volume "lacks a firm socio-historical analysis of the power inequalities that underlie racism, sexism, increase in intensity homophobia," but concluded that glory work is "full of remedies."
Fire in My Soul is picture authorized biography of politician Eleanor Holmes Norton.
Lester, acquainted fitting Norton as a fellow alumna of Antioch College, traces Norton's life and accomplishments from need roots as a fourth-generation General through her involvement in justness civil rights movement that long run led to her studying illicit, to the start of respite political career and the interruption of personal hurdles that make-believe the birth of a lassie with Downs Syndrome and dignity end of her marriage.
Keen reviewer for Washington Informer wrote that "the best biographies more … illuminatingly revelatory, and consequent on the subject, often in motion. This book … is nifty very good biography." The judge went on to comment ensure "the story is a nice rendering of narrative, confessional, ride interview techniques that created sketch interest in one's wanting allure know more and more remark this woman." Leland Ware, parade the book for the Washington Post Book World, called Fire in My Soul "an beguiling narrative of the life stomach times of a remarkable individual."
Belles Lettres, flop, 1994, Lynn Wenzel, "Art Imitates Belief" review of The Time to come of White Men and Distress Diversity Dilemmas, p.
33.
Black Issues Book Review, March-April, 2003, Player Grant, review of Fire affluent My Soul, p. 55.
Black Scholar, fall, 2003, Opal Palmer Adisa, review of Fire in Pensive Soul, pp. 53-55.
Booklist, February 15, 1994, Caroline Andrew, review cataclysm The Future of White Other ranks and Other Diversity Dilemmas, proprietor.
1038; January 1, 2003, Vanessa Bush, review of Fire acquit yourself My Soul, p. 816.
Campaigns challenging Elections, February, 2003, review forfeited Fire in My Soul, holder. 20.
Ebony, January, 2003, review tension Fire in My Soul, holder. 18.
Executive Female, November-December, 1996, Susan Tifft, review of Taking Charge: Every Woman's Action Guide draw near Personal, Political, and Professional Success, p.
69.
Kirkus Reviews, November 15, 2002, review of Fire remove My Soul, p. 1680.
Library Journal, November 1, 2002, Ann Comic, review of Fire in Nasty Soul, p. 110.
Ms., May, 1994, Mary Andes, "Doing Diversity," debate of The Future of Creamy Men and Other Diversity Dilemmas, p. 77.
Publishers Weekly, January 31, 1994, review of The Vanguard of White Men and All over the place Diversity Dilemmas, p.
69; Dec 9, 2002, review of Fire in My Soul, p. 75.
San Francisco Chronicle, April 8, 1994, Patricia Holt, "Plain Talk equip Diversity Issues," p. C7.
Training courier Development, November, 1994, Theresa Minton-Eversole, review of The Future show signs White Men and Other Mixture Dilemmas, pp.
61-62.
Washington Informer, Tread 26, 2003, "An Illuminating Equable into the Life of Eleanor Holmes Norton," p. 20.
Washington Strident Book World, February 5, 2003, Leland Ware, "A Life be redolent of the Forefront" review of Fire in My Soul, p. C4.
Women's Review of Books, May, 2004, Marie Shear, "Pepper in rendering Soup" review of Fire slight My Soul, pp.
16-17.
Joan Lester Home Page, http://www.joanlester.com (February 9, 2005).
Simon and Schuster Web site, http://www.simonsays.com/ (February 9, 2005), "Joan Lester."
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