Catherine Orr

Alex Catherine Orr is recently retired from a 20-year career as a professor in Beloit College's Critical Identity Studies Department. She is also co-founder/CEO of Reflective Justice LLC, a DEI consulting firm for higher education. When she's not facilitating conversations about what it looks like to decolonize the curriculum/pedagogy/culture/operations at colleges and universities, she is most likely getting paint, glue, and paper everywhere as she follows her passion for mixed-media art. No matter who she's hanging with, she tries to create opportunities for people to see themselves as equity-driven leaders and regularly talks up the benefits of Black women's leadership to address that ails all of us. She's runner, a cat guardian, a life partner, and a mom to a 14-year-old who attends Lafollette High School.