Katherine Newman

Katherine S. Newman (born February 21, 1953) is the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and American author. She previously served as a professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, and Harvard University. Newman received a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for No Shame in My Game in 2000. She is also the author of Reskilling America: Learning to Labor in the Twenty-First Century (2016).