Paris Prince (They/Them)
Senior Director, Partnerships & Strategic Initiatives
Paris is passionate about cultivating and promoting inclusive partnerships across lines of difference to support empowerment and social change. They have successfully led a vast variety of strategic JEDI initiatives, including at leading institutions of research, inquiry and education in diverse learning communities across the country and the world.
Before joining IEN, Paris served as Director of Inclusion at global health equity nonprofit GlobeMed, where they developed partnerships for a diverse global health workforce in concert with USAID Global Health Fellows Program II and the Public Health Institute. Paris worked in a variety of positions and projects within federal, state, and local levels of government, including as Compliance Officer at the EEOC and HUD partner, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD). Among other roles, they have also served as faculty in the Department of Management and Information Systems at Mississippi State University, and as a senior administrative faculty member affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University’s Division for Inclusive Excellence, Equity & Access Services and Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies.
Paris was born and raised on the south side of Chicago, and later studied in Worcester, Massachusetts where they obtained a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Becker College, and Master of Business Administration concentrating in Social Change from Clark University’s Graduate School of Management’s partnership with the renowned International Development, Community and Environment program. Paris is also a conservatory trained musician, and a two-time USTA mid-Atlantic region tennis champion. Paris currently resides in Richmond, Virginia.