Norrell Edwards

Norrell Edwards (she/her) is a scholar, activist, and communications consultant for nonprofit organizations. Her employment experience and research interests place her work at the nexus of global Black identity, cultural memory, and social justice. She is currently a Distinguished Lecturer for her alma mater, the CUNY Macaulay Honors College. Previous to 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 has edited collections as well as public work in LA Review of Books, The Grio, and the Black Westchester.

Norrell graduated with a BA in English Literature from Hunter College, followed by a PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park in twentieth and twenty-first century Black Diaspora Literature.