• Board Member
• Board of Directors
• lhenderson@mimosafoundation.org

Lenneal Henderson, Ph.D., a member of the Board of Directors of the Interdisciplinary Action Research Council, is currently a Mentoring Faculty member in the doctoral program in Leadership and Change at the Fielding Graduate University; a Senior Fellow and Eminent Scholar at Virginia State University where he was formerly Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. He is also a Visiting Faculty Member at the College of William and Mary. He is Assistant Dean of Students and Distinguished Professor of Public and International Affairs, Emeritus at the University of Baltimore. He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and a Fellow of the International City Management Association.

     He has been Deputy Northern California Director of the Humphrey-Muskie Presidential Campaign in 1968, Intern to former Berkeley City Council Member D’Army Bailey; Chairman of the Citizen’s Budget Commission in Washington, D.C. and Associate Director of Research at the Joint Center for Political Studies.

  He is the former President of the San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society; Vice-Chairman of the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture and a founding Board member of the Reginald Lewis Maryland Museum of African American History and Culture.

   He was the National Chair of the Conference of Minority Public Administrators and President of both the Maryland the National Capital Area Chapters of the American Society for Public Administration.

     His A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees were earned at the University of California, Berkeley and he was a Ford Foundation, National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of LifeNet Health, Inc.

  His books include Black Political Life in the U.S., The New Black Politics: The Search for Political Power; Administrative Advocacy and Dimensions of Learning: Education for Life.