Jennifer Tilton

Jennifer Tilton is a professor of Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Redlands. Her research focuses on understanding the history of racial segregation in the U.S. and its impact on the criminal justice system, local politics, and children’s lives. She helps coordinate The Bridges That Carried Us Over Project: Documenting Black History in the IE and is one of the co-directors of A People’s History of the IE, a community based archiving and mapping project. Tilton’s public history work is featured at the Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California, Black Voice News, and on A People’s History website www.peopleshistoryie.org. She has taught college courses in a local juvenile hall and at a California Rehabilitation Center and facilitates the IE Fair Chance Coalition which advocates to take down Barriers for people living with criminal convictions.

• Ph.D., American Culture & Anthropology, University of Michigan
• B.A., Anthropology, Princeton University
   

• Professor University of Redlands
   
• Board Member Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California
   
• Facilitator Inland Empire Fair Chance Coalition

• Juneteenth Freedom Award Redlands Unity in the Community
   
• Innovative Teaching Award University of Redlands