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Dr. Roxanne Donovan is a nationally recognized psychologist and award-winning professor at Kennesaw State University whose writing translates research into real talk on fostering well-being in unjust environments. She’s co-authored two books—Teaching Diversity Relationally and Unraveling Assumptions—and is currently co-authoring a third, We Who Mother: Legacies and Futures in Black Feminist Mothering. Through WellAcademic, her faculty development organization, she's helped hundreds of women of color (and other scholars) find greater joy and achievement in academia.

Dr. Roxanne Donovan is a nationally recognized psychologist and award-winning professor at Kennesaw State University whose writing translates research into real talk on fostering well-being in unjust environments.

She’s co-authored two books—Teaching Diversity Relationally: Engaging Emotions and Embracing Possibilities and Unraveling Assumptions: A Primer for Understanding Oppression and Privilege—and has published numerous academic articles and chapters on gendered racism, Black women's health, and faculty well-being.

She is currently co-authoring her third book, We Who Mother: Legacies and Futures in Black Feminist Mothering, with education scholar Dr. Nichole Guillory.

Her expertise has been featured in The Washington Post, Science News, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; on Georgia Public Radio; and on top-ranked podcasts, including Teaching in Higher Ed, Your Words Unleashed, and Wise Effort.

Through WellAcademic, the faculty development organization she founded in 2015, Dr. Donovan has helped hundreds of women of color (and other scholars) find greater joy and achievement in academia. Her free Wellness Wednesday newsletter brings writing and wellness strategies to more than 1,000 faculty subscribers.
 
Integrated with her professional identities are her rich, multilayered roles as mama, sister, auntie, and spouse.