Jeanine Weekes Schroer is an ethicist and philosopher of race and feminist theory. As a thinker and a human she is keenly interested in fostering accessible and restorative practices that support a robust and joyful human flourishing for everyone. At UMD, she has worked on local and big picture policy aimed at facilitating success for a diverse population of students; she has developed and led faculty development aimed at meeting students where they are without sacrificing meaningful skill building or faculty well-being. She has led curricular development and university wide curriculum change. In the Twin Ports community, she has led the board of Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault (PAVSA) and co-founded Black Liberation Lab (an organization dedicated to supporting Black folk of Duluth in struggle for self-definition, rich and meaningful lives, and transformative healing).
Dr. Schroer writes and teaches about the ethics and politics of social oppression and its remedies. She co-edited the first philosophical volume on Microaggression -- Microagressions and Philosophy (with Lauren Freeman), as well as special issues of Hypatia (on the ethics and politics of epistemic practice) and Mississippi Quarterly (on mass incarceration). Schroer has won University of Minnesota’s Justice, Equity, and Inclusion Award, as well as the Horace T. Morse Award for Undergraduate Education.