Lee Anne Bell

Professor Lee Anne Bell was the Barbara Silver Horowitz Professor and is now Professor Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is known for the innovative Storytelling Project she created in collaboration with artists and educators through grants from the Third Millennium Foundation. The Storytelling Project provides a model for designing anti-racist and social justice curriculum and pedagogy. This model is described in her book Storytelling for Social Justice: Connecting Narrative and the Arts in Antiracist Teaching (Routledge, 2020). An interview about the project is available at https://organizingengagement.org/interview/lee-anne-bell.

Bell’s documentary, 40 Years Later: Now Can We Talk?, tells the stories of the first class of African Americans to desegregate the white high school in their Mississippi Delta town in the years 1967–69. The documentary received the 2013 Media Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education and the 2014 Charles and Margaret Witten Award for Distinguished Documentary Film in Education. Bell is co-editor of Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, 4th edition (Routledge, 2023).

Updated September 3, 2024