Carol Parker Walsh, JD, PhD, Principal

With over 15 years of experience, Dr. Parker Walsh serves as Principal of ParkerWalsh Consulting a diversity and organizational consulting firm located in Camas, WA. Dr. Parker Walsh also serves as the Interim Director at Oregon Master of Public Health Program and Assistant Professor at Oregon Health and Science University. Prior to establishing ParkerWalsh Consulting, she served as Assistant Director for Diversity Development, Management Consultant with Oregon Health and Science University, and Labor Counsel with the Oregon Nurses Association and the National Treasury Employees Union.

Dr. Parker Walsh attended Fielding Graduate University where she studied Human and Social Systems and earned a Doctorate degree in 2005. She holds masters degrees in Human Development and Organizational Management. She also attended IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law where she studied Employment/Labor Law and earned a J.D. degree in 1991 and received her B.A. from Loyola University of Chicago in Organizational Communication. Dr. Parker Walsh is also a certified mediator and has also been trained in the study of social systems and group relations with the A.K. Rice Institute.

Dr. Parker Walsh’s core expertise includes identifying, defining, and developing solutions to organizational barriers to building an integrated pluralistic diverse workforce; and effectively developing workgroup and organizational structure/culture through consultation, coaching, training, facilitation, and mediation. She has presented throughout the United States and internationally, including Australia, England, Montreal, and Mexico on deconstructing systems of oppression. Her research interest explore how Black women, positioned at the intersection of various systems of oppression (racism, sexism, classism), deal with stress, obesity, and self-esteem.

Her work has appeared in the Journal of Nursing Education, Journal of Diversity and Social Justice, Journal of Cultural Diversity, the International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities, and Nations, and the Journal of Black Studies.

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