Dr. Willie Tolliver

Willie Tolliver serves as Director of Research & Development at Moving Education, Inc. He brings thirty years of teaching experience from the City University of New York’s social work graduate program, where he taught and supervised teaching/learning labs and research at the master’s and doctoral levels. His work focuses on identifying and interrupting coloniality in systems delivering instructional services, social services, and social work practices across the United States and Canada.

Tolliver has forty-seven years of direct practice experience in child welfare, social services, liberation-based theory development and practice, political campaign management and organizing, organizational and leadership development, and social justice movement building. He earned a BA from Florida A&M University, an MS from the Columbia University School of Social Work, and a Doctorate in Social Welfare from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.