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 Author Kathleen Cross has been a
guest on Oprah, Phil Donohue, and The Montel Williams Show, and
recently appeared on Dr. Phil
with Bill Cosby to discuss comments he made regarding the African American community.
Kathleen has more than twenty years of experience as a speaker, meeting facilitator and workshop leader.
She has taught at
the secondary and university levels, was named by California
Superior Courts as an expert on issues concerning multi-ethnic
identity and has developed and presented more than fifty workshops on race, equity and social justice.
Cross penned two novels published by Avon Books, Skin Deep (1999) and Schooling Carmen (2004). Skin Deep, lauded by Emerge magazine as a “powerful debut novel,” was an
alternate selection of Doubleday Book Club and the Literary Guild. Skin Deep won the Black Writers Alliance 2000 Gold Pen for Best Contemporary Fiction, and is used as required text in high schools, colleges and universities across the country (a teacher’s guide for Skin Deep, written by the author, is
available).
Kathleen is a member of the Board of Directors of Oneness, a national non-profit organization whose mission is “to promote the oneness of humanity and eliminate racism through music, the arts and education.” Oneness has deep ties in the entertainment industry,
with a long list of influential supporters interested in anti-racism issues, including executives at ABC/Disney, Fox Broadcasting and Universal Music Publishing Group, as well as
artists such as Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, B.B. King, Sarah
McLachlan,
and Carlos Santana.
The daughter of an African American father and white mother, Cross
was featured in Ebony magazine in a story she wrote bout her life as a
bi-ethnic woman who looks white. She is highlighted in Bruce Caines’ photo-essay book “Our Common Ground: Blacks Changing the Face of America” (Crown, 1994), for which she wrote the forward, and was twice featured in 2004 in Rolling Out Urban Weekly (published in 19 U.S. cities), for which she
has since served as contributing writer. (Click here to read her feature
stories on Jamie Foxx, Don Cheadle, Queen Latifah and others).
Kathleen recently served on a panel sponsored by the Independent Writers of Southern California to speak about the role of writers in addressing human rights
issues. She was the keynote speaker at the 2003 Human Rights Awards, and a featured speaker at the World Federalist Association’s September11th Memorial in Los
Angeles for two consecutive years.
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