Michele Brown Kerrigan is passionate educator with 18 years of experience in the higher education industry. She is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Management Division at Babson College where she teaches organizational behavior courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Michele also serves as faculty co-director of a course entitled FME: Foundations of Management & Entrepreneurship, a year-long academic course in which first-year students launch and run their own ventures. 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 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 also recently 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, and offered a CAM (graduate) Inclusive Leadership course in the Fall of 2022 and is delivering an undergraduate elective on "Building Inclusive Organizations" this spring 2023 semester. Lastly, Michele recently joined the Dean of faculty Inclusive Excellence Committee and looks forward to continuing to work with the Babson faculty on DEIJ efforts.
