LeRoy Gardner, Jr.
Senior teaching specialist

LeRoy Gardner, Jr., a life long resident of Minnesota, graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1969 with a B.A. degree (psychology major and sociology minor). He earned a master of arts degree in 1980 from the University's Department of Educational Psychology/counseling and student personnel psychology.

His previous work experience includes the following: high school teacher, community college basketball coach, academic adviser and counselor (in both the community college and at the University), administrator, lecturer, and acting director of student discipline at the University. LeRoy has counseled men who have been violent, taught the teachers on multicultural education issues, and has been a consultant to high schools, community colleges, and universities on issues of race and its impact on the education of students of color.

LeRoy's interests have led him to investigate, research, and work in the following areas:

• holism
• stress management
• mind/body integration in holistic health and wellness
• loving life
• multicultural education
• biracial/bicultural families
• education of students of color
• barriers of fear and shame in families
• the impact of racism, gender, class, culture and ethnicity on identity
• the psychological violence of internal oppression on the inner self
• men and violence
• counseling issues affecting student athletes
• integration of the spiritual and its impact on the personality
• self awareness and meditation (master's thesis)
• issues of power, control and the mastery of self.

LeRoy is married to Claudia Wallace-Gardner. They have four children and three grand-children.

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