About New Demographic

New Demographic is a consulting firm that helps organizations overcome diversity fatigue by facilitating relaxed, authentic, and productive conversations about race and racism. It was co-founded by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove in 2004.

About Carmen Van Kerckhove: Short Bio

Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of New Demographic, a consulting firm that helps organizations overcome diversity fatigue by facilitating relaxed, authentic, and productive conversations about race and racism. She hosts the podcast Addicted to Race and blogs at Racialicious, Anti-Racist Parent, and Race in the Workplace. Carmen’s perspectives on race and racism have been featured in Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times, MSNBC Live, and NPR’s News & Notes.

About Carmen Van Kerckhove: Long Bio

Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of New Demographic, a consulting firm that helps organizations overcome diversity fatigue by facilitating relaxed, authentic, and productive conversations about race and racism.

She hosts Addicted to Race, a podcast about America’s obsession with race and edits a network of blogs, including Racialicious, a blog about the intersection of race and pop culture, Anti-Racist Parent, a blog for parents committed to raising children with an anti-racist outlook and Race in the Workplace, a blog that explores how race and racism influence our working lives.

Carmen’s perspectives on race and racism have been featured in Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times, The Nation, The San Francisco Chronicle Online, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, Time Out New York, and Maclean’s. Carmen has appeared on MSNBC Live, NPR’s News & Notes, Washington Post Radio, American Public Media’s Marketplace, PBS’s Asian America, KQED’s Pacific Time, and WBAI’s The Jordan Journal and Asia Pacific Forum.

She contributes advice columns to the Diversity Q&A portion of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) web site. The Science Museum of Minnesota featured her as part of its exhibit “Race: Are We So Different?,” created by the American Anthropological Association. She was the keynote speaker at the 10th Annual National Student Conference on the Mixed Race Experience and the 1st Annual New York City Asian American Student Conference.

Carmen graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Political Science. She currently lives in New York City.

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Carmen Van Kerckhove
New Demographic
244 Fifth Ave, Suite C250
New York, NY 10001-7604
Tel: 917.657.3886
AIM: cvkerckhove
carmen@newdemographic.com

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