Kenya Tyson

Advocate | Strategist | Public Scholar
An internationally recognized social justice expert and higher education executive, with expertise in the field of race, crime, and inequality.

Speaking Engagements

Meet Kenya

Kenya Tyson, JD is an internationally recognized social justice expert and higher education executive, with expertise in the field of race, crime, and inequality. Kenya is the Senior Associate Provost at Dartmouth College. In this role, she serves as the Provost’s chief advisor and oversees academic compliance, institutional research, resource planning, and operations. Prior to working at Dartmouth, she served in a number of executive leadership positions at universities, including at Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice, where she successfully led the university’s effort to develop a prison education program

Work with Kenya

Kenya offers consulting and capacity-building services in the areas of higher education, social justice, and public policy.

Kenya nationally sought-after speaker and social commentator on criminal and social justice issues, higher education, and public policy issues. She has traveled internationally, delivering results-oriented keynote presentations, workshops, and seminars to diverse audiences on topics ranging from student success and carceral education to American history and human trafficking.