Dr. Marcella “Marcy” De Veaux is a media expert, educator, lecturer, and professional development coach.

She is currently a tenured full Professor at California State University, Northridge and serves as the Associate Director of Faculty Development providing support for faculty to bring equity-minded, culturally responsive teaching to the classroom.  De Veaux is part of a team that facilitates SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) workshops for campus leaders, faculty and staff.

SEED workshops provide evidence-based approaches for transformational professional development that prepares contributors to facilitate conversations through storytelling that drives social change within their institution.

Dr. De Veaux arranges workshops on diversity, equity, inclusion, and cultural competencies towards building a culturally competent work environment for higher education, small to medium sized businesses, non-profit organizations and media companies.

Her work is fueled by helping people liberate themselves from internal and external forces of oppression by deepening their understanding of their own strengths and the skills to negotiate where they are challenged.

Dr. De Veaux has over two decades experience in entertainment public relations, diversity best practices and coaching she has coupled that work with Master of Science degree in Human Resource Management from Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a PhD in Depth and Liberation Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, in Santa Barbara, California.  Both degrees support her work in grappling with unconscious bias in the workplace.

Her work appears in several publications including, Seeing in The Dark: Wisdom Works by Black Women in Depth Psychology; Imaginative Inquiry: Innovative Approaches to Interdisciplinary Research; she co-edited Pacifica Graduate Institute: An Alumni Tribute to 40 Years of Tending Soul in and of the World. Her latest work Teaching “Daughters of the Dust” as a Womanist Film and the Black Arts Aesthetic of Filmmaker Julie Dash was published in 2019.