Irma McClaurin, Ph.D. is an activist bio-cultural anthropologist who studies the social construction of inequality. McClaurin is the founder and senior consultant of Irma McClaurin Solutions (IMS), a business that is focused on leadership and organizational development; diversity and change strategies; authentic community engagement practices; and research and evaluations. Informed by past experiences as a president of Shaw University and Chief Diversity Officer at Teach For America, McClaurin is dubbed an “academic entrepreneur”. She has held numerous executive positions that include grant making and fundraising. Dr. McClaurin recently founded the “Irma McClaurin Black Feminist Archive” in 2016; it is a collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s W.E.B. Du Bois Library Department of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) and the W.E.B. Du Bois Center.