Keith Magee

The Reverend Professor Keith Magee, Th.D., FRHistS, FRSA is a Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor of Practice in Cultural Justice at University College London (UCL) Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, where he leads Black Britain and Beyond, a think tank and social policy platform. He is a Fellow at the UCL Centre on US Politics (CUSP), and Chair and Professor of Practice in Social Justice at Newcastle University Law School.

Noted a public intellectual, theologian, and social justice scholar, Professor Magee has a professional career of over three decades in public theology, public policy and political affairs, all leading to social justice. The Biden-Harris Administration’s US Ambassador to the Court of St James’s has appointed Magee to the US-UK Fulbright Commission, having served on the Biden 2020 President Campaign’s African American Kitchen Cabinet. He is an elected Councillor of Democrats Abroad UK. The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan appointed him as a Commissioner on Diversity in the Public Realm. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and inducted into the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars. He is the Chair of The Guardian Foundation, Trustee of The Gallery of Living History, Trustee of Facing History and Ourselves, and serves on the Board of the Foundation for Louisiana. He is a life member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and a member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.
 
As a dyslexic, one of his most significant accomplishments was co-creating the Multicultural Initiative at the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity. He has secured over $15 million to develop programmes and initiatives that advocate and support dyslexia globally. One of the efforts led to the co-founding of the St. Joseph’s University Urban Teachers Masters of Education Residency Training Program.
 
Professor Magee's research and teaching interests include social justice, civil rights, and voting rights and the intersection of US race, religion, and politics. He is the author of the award-winning Prophetic Justice: On Race, Religion and Politics, now in its second edition (2024). He is also a CNN, NBC, BBC, LSE, and TIME contributor on issues of social justice, politics, race, and religion.