Dr. Edna B. Chun serves as chief learning officer with HigherEd Talent and teaches in the graduate Human Capital Management program in the Columbia University School of Professional Studies. She has more than two decades of strategic human resource and diversity leadership experience in complex, multi-campus systems of higher education. A sought-after keynote speaker and facilitator, Chun is an award-winning author and educational thought leader with a major body of published work on diversity and human resource practices in higher education. Two of her books, Are the Walls Really Down? Behavioral and Organizational Barriers to Faculty and Staff Diversity and Bridging the Diversity Divide: Globalization and Reciprocal Empowerment in Higher Education received the prestigious Kathryn G. Hansen Publication Award from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR). The New Talent Acquisition Frontier, the first book to lay out a concrete roadmap to the integration of HR and diversity strategy, was awarded a silver medal in the 2014 Axiom Business Book Awards. Among her co-authored books are Creating a Tipping Point: Strategic Human Resources in Higher Education; The Department Chair as Transformative Diversity Leader; and Leading a Diversity Culture Shift in Higher Education: Comprehensive Organizational Learning Strategies. Her most recent books include Rethinking Diversity Frameworks in Higher Education with Joe Feagin and Conducting an Institutional Diversity Audit in Higher Education and Leveraging Multigenerational Workforce Strategies in Higher Education with Alvin Evans.

Dr. Chun holds the Doctor of Music and Master of Music degrees with High Distinction from Indiana University, the Master of Arts from Columbia University, and the Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College.