Location: United States
Member Since: May 30, 2010
Renford Reese
Biography
Renford Reese is a university professor and founder/director of the acclaimed Colorful Flags program. He is the author of "American Bravado" (2007), "Prison Race" (2006), "Leadership in the LAPD: Walking the Tightrope" (2005), and the widely discussed "American Paradox: Young Black Men" (2004). He is also the author of the Starbucks "The Way I See It" quote #294: "Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful." Reese has traveled to 58 countries and has given lectures in many of them. In 2009, he was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholars Award to lecture in the American Studies program at the University of Hong Kong. During his time in Hong Kong he was inspired to write his first novel, "Hong Kong Nights." He was recently featured on ESPN's "Realizing the Dream" Black History Month series.