Lessie Branch Dr. Lessie Branch

Dr. Lessie Branch is a Racial Policy Scholar, Fulbright Specialist, Director at The Think Tank at The Thinkubator and Affiliated Scholar with Scholars Strategy Network. She is an Associate Professor in the School for Business at Metropolitan College of New York. She earned her Ph.D. from The Milano School of Policy, Management and Environment at The New School. Dr. Branch’s research examines the gulf between Black optimism, group progress and the actual data on continuing disparities and potentially speaks to wider questions of social knowledge, social beliefs and relative group position.