Wanda Minor

Wanda Madison Minor is a native of Livingston, Alabama, and is a graduate of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, with BA, MA, EdS, and PhD degrees. She has more than 25 years working in public education at the K-12, post-secondary, and higher education levels, in the non-profit arena and in the public and private sectors. She is a former SREB Doctoral Scholar and Kettering Foundation Citizen Researcher. Since 1983, Minor has convened and facilitated public, deliberative forums on salient national issues such as health care reform, death and dying, Social Security, the national debt, America’s Role in the World, race relations, the energy crises, immigration, and others. She has been a participant at the LBJ Presidential Library Conference in Austin, Texas, at the National Issues Forums’ (NIF) Washington Weeks in Washington, D.C., and at several Public Policy Institutes in Miami, OH, for NIF network providers. In March 2009, she served as a Juried Witness on Health Care Reform at the National Archives, in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the National Issues Forums Institute and the Kettering Foundation of Dayton, OH. Since locating to New Jersey in late 2006, Minor has lead deliberative forums in aging-services communities and has conducted research to examine the habits of civic engagement among older adults. She serves on the advisory council of the Center for Human and Community Wellness at Monmouth University, located in West Long Branch, New Jersey and does independent consulting in the areas of training and development, educational and community-based participatory research, race relations, civic engagement, and strategic communications.