Dr. Riché D. Richardson 

Riché Richardson’s work as a scholar and artist who has participated in several national exhibitions frequently allows her to engage in forms of public outreach and to share her research with audiences beyond academia.  Such opportunities provide a public platform on which to share her work as a scholar in the humanities and enable forms of community engagement.  All of this reflects her longstanding commitment to making a difference, a mission that she first began as a teen at 16 and 17 through her weekly work as a volunteer at Cleveland Avenue’s YMCA in her hometown, Montgomery, Alabama, where she established a program for children and preteens while serving as student council vice- president and later president at the historic St. Jude Educational Institute.  Richardson contributes to church, community organizations and charities and from 2006-19, sponsored a child in Ethiopia through Childfund.