About Carmen Van Kerckhove

New Demographic was co-founded by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove in 2004.

Short Bio

Carmen Van Kerckhove [pronounced Van Kurr-Cove] is co-founder and president of New Demographic, a consulting firm that helps people learn about the real issues behind race and racism without having to endure the misery of diversity training. 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, and NPR.

Longer Bio

Carmen Van Kerckhove [pronounced Van Kurr-Cove] is co-founder and president of New Demographic, a consulting firm that helps people learn about the real issues behind race and racism without having to endure the misery of diversity training.

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 Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, and The Nation magazine. Carmen has appeared on MSNBC, NPR, Washington Post Radio, American Public Media’s Marketplace, and PBS’s Asian America.

She writes for 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.