Kendrick Brown is Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. He served previously as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Redlands in Southern California for four and half years. For 18 years, he was a faculty member, department chair, and Associate Dean of the Faculty at Macalester College. His research focuses on the perception of allies by Black, Indigenous, and people of color, as well as how skin tone bias affects the psychological well-being of Black people and the ways in which interracial contact on sports teams can promote empathy and policy stances.