A highly-regarded research-practitioner and educational equity visionary, Dr. Warren-Grice believes wellness is social justice and takes a holistic approach to the development of the mind, body, and spirit. She serves as a bridge of connection for advocates and practitioners wanting to move from theory to practice. In addition, she creates communities of practice among academics, educators, wellness practitioners and the people they serve. Her career in education spans more than 20 years and includes service as a high school English teacher and administrator, assistant professor, professional development coordinator, and educational consultant.

Dr. Warren-Grice’s life’s work has three distinct areas of focus. She researches equity and access, using her findings to create culturally-relevant programs and wellness offerings for communities of color. As the Remake Learning/Pitt School of Education Dean’s Equity Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh, she operationalizes and creates structures to support educational equity, justice, and transformative research. In this role she provides leadership in the areas of the future of Black education, the Black teacher pipeline, teacher development, and professional development for in-service practitioners. Managing a $250,000 grant, she leads an international team of students, practitioners, and researchers within PK-12 and higher education contexts to explore ways to think about, make recommendations, and propose practices, pedagogies, and policies that could positively impact the educational trajectories of Black children, families, and communities. Her research focuses on the lessons we should have learned from Black educators of the past, from ancient Nubia and Kemet in ancient Africa, to the segregated South of the United States, to current Black educators across the diaspora, and specifically in the U.S., who are fighting to create systematic equity for all students. Her work documents and celebrates the legacy of Black educators and contributes to the literature on how their teaching and leadership approaches can transform and advance inclusive structures and policies for equitable, just, and liberatory schools. She has authored three manuscripts that highlight this work: (1) Advocacy for equity: Extending culturally relevant pedagogy in predominantly white suburban schools published in Teachers College Record, (2) Educational cultural negotiators for students of color: A descriptive study of racial advocacy published in Race Ethnicity, and Education, and (3) Space to be whole: A landscape analysis of education-based racial affinity groups in the U.S., a report for the National Equity Project.

In addition, she is active in a number of community initiatives. She is the founder and CEO of Liberated Genius, LLC, an educational consulting company supporting educational leaders with liberatory pedagogy and collaborative advocacy opportunities for Black youth and educators. She also serves as the Director of Research & Organizational Learning at InPower Institute which focuses on the advancement of a more just and vibrant world through community healing and well-being initiatives that unleash people, community, and organizational power. Taken together, these roles have deepened her commitment to designing mindfulness practices and experiential learning programs that transform conditions for marginalized communities.

Married to Dr. Javania Webb, she is the daughter of Teresa Warren-Gardner and Michael Lee Warren, and the aunt of Malachi and Michaela Parker, Malcolm and Michael Gibson, and Seth Young. Dr. Warren-Grice holds a PhD in Educational Policy Studies from The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.