Michele Brown Kerrigan

Michele Brown Kerrigan is passionate educator with 20 years of experience in the higher education industry. She is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Management Division at Babson College where she teaches organizational behavior courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Michele is currently the co-chair of the Dean of Faculty Inclusive Excellence Committee (DoFIE). Michele holds a PhD in Higher Education with a focus on leadership and Critical Race Theory from Boston College. Her dissertation examined the lived experiences (as they pertain to leadership) of students of color at a Predominately White Institution.

At Babson, Michele has been heavily involved in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts, including leading a committee redesign of the First-Year Seminar curriculum to focus on topics of DEI, redesigning diversity content for the Foundations of Management & Entrepreneurship (FME) program, drafting content for an online platform to provide DEI training for adult learners, and participating on a small team of faculty to design a two-week “Inclusive Teacher Training Program” (ITTP) for Babson faculty to develop their knowledge of fostering inclusive learning environments; Michele served as an inaugural facilitator for the program. Michele partnered with 50 Egg Films to create facilitator materials for high school and college faculty to accompany their latest documentary, “A Most Beautiful Thing.” Additionally, Michele co-delivered a three-part “Actionable Allyship” series for Pfizer, one of Babson's corporate partners. Pedagogically, Michele offered a CAM (graduate) Inclusive Leadership course in the Fall of 2022 and delivers a self-designed advanced undergraduate experiential elective entitled, "Building Inclusive Organizations." Lastly, Michele also engages in executive education and consulting work centered on DEI in the workplace and/or entrepreneurial leadership topics and was recently awarded the MLK Jr. Leadership Award at Babson.