Dana Polson

Dana Polson is an anti-racism/anti-oppression facilitator, executive coach, and client project manager at Baltimore Racial Justice Action. With a 20-year background in public education as a teacher and administrator, she has a strong interest in helping individuals and organizations combine learning, self-reflection, and new practices into transformative change. She earned her PhD in 2012 from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County from the Language, Literacy, and Culture Program. Her dissertation Longing for Theory focused on the ways that Black Baltimore students were using theory from Black studies to transform their participation in the formerly
white-dominated space of policy debate.

She continues to use the theoretical background in Black studies as a resource in her work at BRJA as it provides both an explanatory look at our white supremacist, anti-Black society and an imaginative look towards racial justice.