Dr. Terrence Roberts, Ph.D., has taught, written about, and consulted with a variety of groups, institutions, businesses, and professional organizations on issues related to race and racism in American society. As one of The Little Rock Nine, Dr. Roberts has been in demand by those who wish to learn about the impact of the chaos in Little Rock in 1957 and the social, cultural, political, and economic life of citizens in contemporary America. Dr. Roberts is a member of the adjunct faculty at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. He consults with educators from ELHI to colleges and universities, as well as groups of law enforcement officers, including the Los Angeles Police Department and Sheriff’s Department, the California Highway Patrol, and the United States Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division. His goal is to assist educators as they develop skills and more advanced databases of knowledge and to develop more advanced understandings of how some of their attitudes about different others are established by their belief in systems founded upon mythological constructs and supported by pernicious ideologies promulgated by those who wish to preserve a static social hierarchy.

A graduate of California State University at Los Angeles (BA) and UCLA (MSW), Dr. Roberts obtained his Ph.D. in Psychology from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. For forty years, Dr. Roberts was a practicing clinical psychologist, first in Deer Park, California, and later in Pasadena, California. During this same time period, he was Director of Mental Health Services at St. Helena Hospital and Health Center. He was also an Assistant Dean of Student Services at UCLA’s School of Social Welfare, and Department Chair and faculty member in psychology at Antioch University, Los Angeles.

Dr. Roberts published Lessons From Little Rock, a memoir about his experience at Central High School and Reflections on Community, Social Responsibility, and Tolerance. Dr. Roberts has received the Congressional Gold Medal, the Pere Marquette Discovery Award, the Spingarn Medal, and the Robert S. Abbott Award. Dr. Roberts is CEO of Terrence Roberts Consulting, a management consulting firm devoted to fair and equitable practices in business and industry.