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"Dr.Brandy Faulkner is an activist and organizer focusing on racial and
environmental justice. She is committed to cultivating
community-based approaches to problem solving and serves several state
and national organizations dedicated to social justice as well as
social, political, and economic change, including Virginia Organizing
and National Black United Front. Dr. Faulkner is a multi-award
winning professor in Virginia Tech's Department of Political
Science, including the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences’
Teaching Excellence Award, it’s Diversity Award, the university’s
Edward S. Diggs Scholar Award, and an American Political Science
Association research fellowship. Her teaching and research focuses
on race and public policy, American constitutional law, and Pan-African
political theory. She has been recognized by Student African
American Brotherhood, Black Student Alliance, and the Black Graduate
Student Organization with the Black Faculty of the Year Award, the
Community Pillar Award, and the Edward McPherson Achievement award
respectively. She is also a recipient of the prestigious Caring
Hands Award, given by the national Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America
Foundation to community leaders across the country who are engaged in
exemplary youth development" 1.
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