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About Phyllis D.K. Hildreth
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About pdkh
Phyllis D.K. Hildreth served as Academic Director of the Institute for Conflict Management, and associate professor at Lipscomb University, College of Leadership and Public Service. Other prior experience includes roles as Chief Counsel for Administration, Maryland State Office of the Public Defender; Deputy Secretary, Maryland Department of Juvenile Justice; and first Managing Director, Baltimore Juvenile Justice Center. She earned a B. A. in biology from Harvard University, a J. D. degree from the University of Maryland, and an M. A. in conflict management from Lipscomb University.
In a former life, she also fused, cloned and tested monoclonal antibodies at Johns Hopkins Medical School and Oxford University (first grown-up jobs), and later owned and operated a café’ and fiber arts studio in North Nashville.
She currently serves as Chief of Staff at American Baptist College, worships at Clark Memorial United Methodist Church, and is a past member of Nashville’s Metro Human Relations Commission and the Community Oversight Board.
Admitted to the Maryland Bar (1988)
About the Work
Collaboratively, she has designed and convened community dialogues, leadership retreats, and capacity-building learnings around race, equity, and collective action for the City of Nashville (2016), the Northwest YMCA (2018, 2023), and for congregations, non-profit organizations and persons with justice system involvement (2019-present).
Our Commitment to Community
The work holds in stewardship the languages, literatures and narratives of our complex and interlocking ecosystems. The work acknowledges, accepts, and embraces non-hierarchical value derived from visual, verbal, sonic, tactile, analogic, digital, quantitative and qualitative data.
Our work insists on rigor. It strives for excellence.
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