Lance T. McCready

Associate Professor

University of San Francisco, International & Multicultural Education

Lance T. McCready, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the department of International and Multicultural Education at University of San Francisco where he teaches courses on qualitative research, critical race theory, urban education and lgbt studies. Dr. McCready was born in New York City, completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology from Carleton College and obtained his graduate degrees from University of California, Berkeley in social and cultural studies. He is an interdisciplinary scholar-activist whose research and writing focuses on the health, education and employment of marginalized and racialized youth, specifically young Black men and queer youth of color. He recently returned to the U.S. after living abroad in Toronto, Ontario for nine years where he was Associate Professor in the department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at University of Toronto. There he served as Co-Principal Investigator of the Many Men, Many Voices (3MV) project at the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention in Toronto, and Principal Investigator of the Educational Trajectories of Young Black Men study (in collaboration with the John Howard Society of Toronto).