Carolyn Mitchell Dillard is the Community Partnerships Manager in the Division for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and her office is located in the Center for Community Partnerships at UVA.
She joined the UVA family in 2003 and has served in the office of Media Relations & Community Relations. She currently serves on the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers (MEL) Community Engagement Committee and is responsible for MEL Programming. She also serves as a member of the President’s Commission on the University in the Age of Segregation (PCUAS) as the co-chair of its community engagement committee and is on the board of the Descendants of Enslaved Communities at UVA (DEC-UVA). She also served on the President’s Commission on Slavery (PCSU) Community Engagement Committee.
Carolyn is the first female pastor of this historic Zion Hill Baptist Church in Keswick, VA (established 1870), and serves on the Board of the African-American Pastors’ Council of Charlottesville & Vicinity. She has a B.S. from George Mason University, an MBA from National Louis University, a M.Div. from the Virginia Union University School of Theology, and is a current Doctoral Candidate in the Virginia Union University School of Theology. She joined Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. in 1984 and is a proud member of the Charlottesville Alumnae Chapter, and is Dare to Lead Trained.