Bio:Ouida Crozier

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Ouida Crozier was born in 1947 and raised in Florida, lived in South Carolina for 10 years, and spent a year in Pennsylvania while in school. She now resides in Minnesota where she has made her home since January of 1982. Her published work includes poetry, short stories, a novel, and non-fiction. (From the author's former website).

She "was raised in the segregated south of the 1940s, '50s and '60s. She graduated from an all-white school in 1965, 11 years after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Shortly after graduating from the University of Florida, Crozier chose to teach in a newly integrated South Carolina school. Of that year, Crozier says, "For the first time in my life, I had the opportunity to become immersed in the culture of a different racial group. I spent that year learning from all my students, their families and my fellow teachers." As of 2010, she was Coordinator for Diversity and Cultural Competency at the Minnesota Department of Human Services. (From https://www.facingrace.org/ambassador_awards/2010_ambassador_award_recipient/ouida_crozier/.)