Kimberly Ferrell

Kimberly Ferrell serves as the coordinator and director of the Women's Resource Center at Eastern Michigan University, a role she has held for two and a half years. She is also a professor of community education and an author whose first book, Respectability Politics, addresses the triple oppression of Black women in America through the lenses of racism, sexism, and classism. Ferrell has spent eight years in the field of women's studies and women's rights. She earned her bachelor's degree in communication with a minor in women and gender studies, followed by a master's degree in women and gender studies, and completed her PhD in education in the urban community at Eastern Michigan University, making her a Triple Eagle. Her career path includes work with Dress for Success as a volunteer and later founding her own business, Cross Connect, to link women with community resources. She is a member of the National Women's Association, the Women's Commission at Eastern Michigan University, the Presidential Commission Steering Committee, and founded the Women's Resource Center Advisory Committee. In addition to her professional roles, Ferrell is a minister who has led the Followers of the Way ministry for six or seven years and established a women's support group and prayer group in her community.