Richard J. Reddick, Ed.D. is the Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at The University of Texas at Austin. A Distinguished Leadership Service Professor in the College of Education, Reddick is also the faculty co-chair of the Institute for Educational Management and Bravely Confronting Racism in Higher Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and served on UNESCO’s Countering Racism in Textbooks Committee. He teaches courses in the Undergraduate College, Plan II, Black Studies, and Educational Leadership, and conducts research on faculty of color at historically White universities, mentoring, cultural taxation, Black families in America, and work-family balance. Reddick has authored and co-edited four scholarly volumes, with his work featured in NPR, BBC, CNN, Fortune, Nature, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. A first-generation collegian, Reddick earned degrees in Plan II Honors at UT Austin and a masters and doctorate from Harvard University. Reddick is also the author of Restorative Resistance in Higher Education: Leading in an Era of Racial Awakening and Reckoning (Harvard Education Press, 2023). A dad of two, husband, son, and brother, Reddick also co-founded the first public Montessori school in East Austin and co-hosts the NPR podcast, Black Austin Matters. He has appeared on several game shows, including Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, and Who Wants to be a Millionaire? His recent TED talk, “Nurturing Relationships Across Difference,” was a 2025 Editor’s Pick and has received over 18,000 views.
