K. Melchor Quick Hall is a popular educator, writer, and researcher. She is both a Resident Scholar at Brandeis University’s Women’s Studies Research Center (WSRC) and the Executive Director of the African American Education & Research Organization (AAERO) @ Melchor-Quick Meeting House (MQMH), founded by her mother and first teacher, Paula Quick Hall.
Hall is the author of Naming a Transnational Black Feminist Framework: Writing in Darkness, and co-editor, with Gwyn Kirk, of Mapping Gendered Ecologies: Engaging with and Beyond Ecowomanism and Ecofeminism. At Pendle Hill Quaker Retreat and Conference Center, Hall co-leads an artist-led freedom visioning workshop for individuals interested in our shared liberation.
She earned her PhD in International Relations and Master’s degree in International Communication from American University. Dr. Hall has a Master’s degree in Computer Information Sciences from Temple University. She carries on the educational excellence and community engagement of the Melchor-Quick family.