Lived Experience of Colorism-Episode 2

Amira Adawe interviewed Dr. Ronald E. Hall on the issue of colorism and how that is impacting many communities of color in the US and globally as well as his lived experience of colorism. 

Bio: 

Dr. Ronald E. Hall's professional career began as a clinical social worker. He received a BA degree in Psychology from Shaw College, an MA/MCS degree in Correctional Science from the University of Detroit, an MSW degree from the University of Michigan, and a PhD from Atlanta University.

In 1990, Dr. Hall testified as an expert witness in America’s first skin-color discrimination court case between African Americans: Morrow vs. IRS. Dr. Hall later devised the Bleaching Syndrome, to explain discrimination among people of color, and Identity Across the Lifespan, as an alternative biracial identity model.

In 2007, Dr. Hall was invited to Washington D.C., by Congressman Bobby Rush, to lecture on skin color at the Washington Convention Center. Also in 2007, Dr. Hall was an invited lecturer at the Oxford University Roundtable (UK).

In November of 2010, Dr. Hall was Keynote speaker the 2nd Surinam/Dutch Conference on Tropical Dermatology in South America.

More recently, Dr. Hall helped organized and participated in the first of its kind academic conference on global skin color issues at Washington University Law in St. Louis, MO.

In 2014, Dr. Hall launched his own company called HallMarked.