Born into abject poverty in rural southwest Virginia, Dr. Carol Swain, a high school dropout,went on to earn five degrees. Holding a Ph.D. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hilland an M.S.L. from Yale, she also earned early tenure at Princeton and full professorship atVanderbilt where she was professor of political science and a professor of law. Today she is asought-after cable news contributor and guest expert, a best-selling author, and a prominentnational speaker.In addition to having three Presidential appointments, Carol is a former Distinguished SeniorFellow for Constitutional Studies with the Texas Public Policy Foundation who has also servedon the Tennessee Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, the NationalEndowment for the Humanities, and the 1776 Commission.An award-winning political scientist, cited three times by the U.S. Supreme Court, she hasauthored or edited 13 published books including the bestseller, Black Eye for America: HowCritical Race Theory is Burning Down the House, the timely The Adversity of Diversity: How the Supreme Court's Decision to Remove Race From College Admissions Will Doom Diversity Programs, and Countercultural Living: What Jesus Has to Say About Life, Marriage, Race, Gender, and Materialism.Ms. Swain is an expert on critical race theory, American politics, and race relations withtelevision appearances that include BBC Radio and TV, CSPAN, ABC's Headline News, CNN,Fox News, Newsmax and more.In addition, she has published opinion pieces in the New York Times, the Washington Post, theWall Street Journal, the Epoch Times, the Financial Times, and USA Today.She is the founder and CEO of Carol Swain Enterprises, REAL Unity Training Solutions, YourLife Story for Descendants, and her non-profit, Be The People.Carol is a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She resides in Nashville, Tennessee.