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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 Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives 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. In addition to her 20 year career in law and higher education, Kenya has consulted with courts and other government agencies across the nation on procedural justice and racial and ethnic disparity initiatives. She has worked with universities and human rights organizations around the globe, facilitating trainings on Title IX, crime prevention and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and has served in an advisory capacity for several professional organizations.
Kenya is a fifth generation professional musician, trained in the jazz and classical traditions. In addition to earning a full music scholarship to college, Kenya toured internationally for years as a jazz musician and vocalist. Kenya frequently integrates her artistic practice into her research and teaching pedagogy. As a professor and researcher, Kenya walks the interdisciplinary line between the fields of criminal justice and law, engaging in public scholarship that explores the relationship between race and crime. She was recognized by the National Gang Crime Research Center as a recipient of the Frederick Milton Thrasher Award for her scholarship on gang courts and has presented her research at a number of international conferences.
Kenya’s extensive service includes work with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), NJ LEEP (Law and Education Empowerment Project), and the Community Justice Advisory Board for the Essex County (NJ) Prosecutor’s Office. She currently serves as the President of the Garden State Bar Association. She currently serves as the President-Elect of the Garden State Bar Association. Kenya serves as the co-director of the Public Education and Narrative Committee for the New Jersey Reparations Council and is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Commission for Dalit Rights, an international human rights organization that protects the civil and human rights of Dalit and caste-affected communities in South Asia and across the globe. A member of the Board of Directors of Descendants of Rosewood Foundation, Inc. She is a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Access and Fairness and the Review Board of Appeals for the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS).
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