The Reverend Professor Keith Magee

Judge for the Schools’ Competition 2023-2024

The Reverend Professor Keith Magee Th.D., FRHistS, FRSA is a Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor of Practice in Cultural Justice at the University College London (UCL) Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) and a Senior Fellow in Culture and Justice at its Centre on U.S. Politics (CUSP), along with being Chair and Professor of Practice in Social Justice at Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University. Equally essential, he is Chair of The Guardian Foundation.

Magee is passionate about providing humanitarian aid to children and families throughout the world. He is co-founder of Abba House, created for children infected and affected with HIV/AIDS.

He has served as patron for Co-ED Foundation in the United Kingdom and on the board of advisors for the Anti-Defamation League’s A World of Difference Institute.

As a dyslexic, one of his most significant accomplishments is a co-creator of the Multicultural Initiative at Yale University Center for Dyslexia and Creativity. He has secured over $15 millions to develop programs and initiatives that advocate and support dyslexia. One of the efforts lead to the co-founding the St. Joseph’s University Urban Teachers Masters of Education Residency Training Program.