Jane Elliott is an American diversity educator. As a schoolteacher, she became known for her “Blue eyes/Brown eyes” exercise, which she first conducted with her third-grade class.
Is Jane Elliott lesbian?
Elliott was married to Darald Elliott (1934–2013) from 1955 until his death, and she has four children. So we can say that The diversity educator is never a lesbian. Jane Elliott was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by CSU Bakersfield.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, Elliott turned on her television and learned of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. She says she vividly remembers a scene in which a white reporter pointed his microphone toward a local black leader and asked things like “When our leader [John F. Kennedy] was killed several years ago, his widow held us together.
Elliott is considered to be the forerunner of diversity training, with the “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” exercise as the basis of much of what is now called diversity training. She has done such training for corporations such as General Electric, Exxon, AT&T, and IBM, as well as lectured to the FBI, IRS, US Navy, US Department of Education, and US Postal Service.
