Alumni Spotlight: College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences – Michelle Cromwell, M.S.

Michelle Cromwell, M.S. (’01), Ph.D. (’08), is an associate vice president for inclusive excellence and the chief diversity officer at Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts. As a member of the college’s President’s Cabinet, Cromwell counsels the president and administrative council on matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Previously at Regis College, Cromwell was an associate professor of politics and social justice, as well as director of the Honors Program from 2010 to 2016. She has also served as the chief diversity officer at The School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. Describing herself as a pracademic, Cromwell says she is a scholar-practitioner who has “one foot in the academe and the other in the community, as a practitioner.”

She was the cofounding executive director at the Massachusetts Peacemaking and Talking Circle Initiative, a nonprofit organization designed to foster conversations about discrimination and racism in schools, nonprofits, and organizations. In addition, Cromwell serves as an independent consultant working with nonprofits, higher-education institutions, corporations, and government entities with an emphasis on conflict resolution, crisis management, and diversity and inclusion.

At Nova Southeastern University, Cromwell earned an M.S. in Dispute Resolution and a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution specializing in ethnic conflicts. She earned a B.S. degree in social work at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago in 1998.