CEO

Kidogo A. Kennedy, Ed.D founded Education & Communication Consulting, LLC. in 2013. Dr. Kennedy is acritical race theorist, instructional, curricular and programming design expert. A seasoned educational consultant and public orator, she has trained instructional professionals employed by organizations of varied composition, from public/charter K-12 institutions, community colleges and small non-profits, alike and spoken to a wide variety audience’s. Her unique programmatic design incorporates the use of narratives to facilitate discourse and deepen self-awareness surrounding topics such as empathy, diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI).

Through this work, Dr. Kennedy encourages new perspectives and facilitates understanding around invisible systems of advantage: namely race, class and gender. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Kennedy brings her expertise to bear within classrooms at California State University, Los Angeles in the departments of women, gender and sexuality studies (WGSS), Communication Studies and the new College of Ethnic Studies where she instructs courses that focus on topics such as feminism, body politics, globalization and intercultural communication.

Further, Dr. Kennedy instructs courses at the University of Southern California’s, Marshall School of Business within the department of Business Communication where she takes pride in cultivating female thought leaders who are prepared to nuance the benefits of navigating a
globalized and networked world.

Kennedy enjoys walks in nature with friends and has nurtured one daughter who makes her living as a ceramicist and painter.