Peggy McIntosh was born on November 7,1934 and is an American feminist, anti-racism activist, scholar, speaker, and Senior Research Scientist of the Wellesley Centers for Women.
11 Facts About Peggy McIntosh
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Peggy McIntosh is the founder of the National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum.
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Peggy McIntosh has written on curricular revision, feelings of fraudulence, hierarchies in education and society, and professional development of teachers.
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Peggy McIntosh encourages individuals to reflect on and recognize their own unearned advantages and disadvantages as parts of immense and overlapping systems of power.
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Peggy McIntosh was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in New Jersey, where she attended public schools in Ridgewood and Summit, and spent one year at Kent Place School, before attending George School in Newtown, Pennsylvania.
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Peggy McIntosh has worked at what is the Wellesley Centers for Women since 1979.
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Peggy McIntosh currently serves as a Senior Research Scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women.
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Peggy McIntosh directs the Gender, Race, and Inclusive Education Project, which provides workshops on privilege systems, feelings of fraudulence, and diversifying workplaces, curricula, and teaching methods.
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Peggy McIntosh used the metaphor of white privilege as "an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, assurances, tools, maps, guides, codebooks, passports, visas, clothes, compass, emergency gear, and blank checks".
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Peggy McIntosh founded the National SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum in 1986.
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Peggy McIntosh believed that teachers were capable of being the leaders of their own adult development with regard to teaching equitably and inclusively.