“Dr. Carreon Bradley brings an essential mix of scholarly and administrative experience that is a wonderful fit for RISD and this role,” notes RISD President Crystal Williams. “Their background, which includes administrative work and teaching at a broad range of higher education institutions, will enable them to grasp RISD’s unique culture quickly and harness the ongoing good thinking and good work of our community to create and steward a holistic strategic framework that further bolsters RISD’s social equity and inclusion commitments.”
Prior to RISD, Carreon Bradley served as vice president for equity and justice and senior diversity officer at Occidental College. Carreon Bradley also served in the faculty at Vassar College, becoming the first tenured faculty member of color in the physics and astronomy department. They then served as vice president for inclusion, diversity and equity at Smith College and as academic diversity officer at California State University, Fullerton. While at Occidental, Smith and Vassar, Carreon Bradly held the title of associate professor of physics.
Carreon Bradley has a bachelor of arts degree in physics from Grinnell College, a Ph.D. in engineering from the UNL College of Engineering, and Ed.D. in organizational change and leadership from the University of Southern California.