Faculty Profile: Mechele Dickerson
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A. Mechele Dickerson is a nationally recognized scholar and a global media expert on consumer debt, housing affordability and homeownership. She is the author of Homeownership and America's Financial Underclass: Flawed Premises, Broken Promises, New Prescriptions (Cambridge 2014). Dickerson has participated in congressional briefings and has testified before a congressional subcommittee on housing unaffordability. Her current research focuses on income and wealth inequality and she is currently writing a book on the Neglected Middle Class.
Professor Dickerson joined the faculty in January 2006 and served as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2006-2011. She teaches Remedies and Federal Civil Procedure.
Professor Dickerson clerked for Hon. (ret.) Nathaniel R. Jones and practiced law in Washington, D.C. and Norfolk, Virginia before joining the law faculty at the College of William and Mary. Professor Dickerson is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
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2019
March 11, 2019
Keynote Address
Austin Community Foundation
A Conversation on Economic Mobility and the Racial Wealth Gap
2017
October 17, 2017
Congressional Briefing
U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, Room SVC 208
Invited to present at SmartTaxReform: The Republican Tax Plan and the Mortgage Interest Deduction
2016
March 22, 2016
Congressional Testimony
Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance (Committee on Financial Services)
Invited to present paper, The Future of Housing in America: Government Regulations and the High Cost of Housing and answer the committee's questions. https://financialservices.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=400463