Beverly Daniel Tatum

Beverly Daniel Tatum is an educator, author, licensed clinical psychologist, and president emerita of Spelman College, where she served as president from 2002 to 2015. She previously taught psychology and education at Mount Holyoke College, where she also served as dean and vice president for student affairs. Tatum holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan, and an M.A. in religious studies from Hartford Seminary.

Tatum is the author of Assimilation Blues: Black Families in a White Community, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, and Can We Talk about Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation. Her work addresses racial identity development, education, and race relations in the United States.