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She/Her | Nefertiti A. Walker, PhD | Professor | Author | Deputy Vice President. Writing on culture, leadership, equity, sport business . Tweet≠endorsement
Massachusetts, USA sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/… Joined April 2009
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Nef @NefWalker
Thank you, President Meehan! And thank you to my terrific colleagues at the @UMass and beyond who have been instrumental to our collective success. Lastly, thank you to @BosBizJournal for the recognition. I accept with appreciation and grace. GoUMass!!!
Marty Meehan @MartyMeehan Oct 9, 2025
I'm proud to congratulate Dr. Nefertiti Walker, senior vice president of the University of Massachusetts, on being named the Rising Star Award honoree in the Boston Business Journal's 2025 Women Who Mean Business program! @NefWalker @BosBizJournal

🔗bizjournals.com/boston/news/20…
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Looking for some insight into TSpoon’s firing? The first step is to understand that this is par for the course when it comes to the WNBA coaching decisions. Black women are most likely to be fired and least likely to be rehired in the W. #WNBATwitter
Lauren Hindman @laurenhindman Sep 27, 2024
White women and Black men were also more likely to be fired. Full study published in International Journal of Sport Management: …rnationaljournalofsportmanagement.com/firing-discrim…
Abstract: Unlike North American men’s professional sport leagues, where the majority of head coaches are white men, less than a third of Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) head coaches have been white men during the league’s history. Drawing from literature on racial and gender discrimination, we examined whether the race and gender of a head coach impacted firing decisions at the conclusion of WNBA seasons. Using data from 1997-2021, results suggest that Black women, Black men, and white women are all more likely to be fired than a white man coach after controlling for on-court performance. This demonstrates that even as sport organizations decrease access discrimination in their hiring practices, firing discrimination can still persist.
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Nef @NefWalker
Don’t know the details of TSpoon’s firing. But we know from our research that Black women are most likely to be fired and least likely to be rehired in The W. If interested, @WNBA we are happy to talk more about this work. #WNBATwitter
Lauren Hindman @laurenhindman Sep 27, 2024
Lots of questions re: the Sky's firing of Teresa Weatherspoon. Zooming out, our research (@NefWalker @wagesofwins) looked at trends in WNBA head coach firings over 25 years. Controlling for on-court performance, Black women were nearly 3.5 times as likely to be fired as white men
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Nef @NefWalker
Thanks for a wonderful review @blakesilverman!! Check out this @Winsidr review of my book with @wagesofwins, Slaying The Trolls!
Winsidr Verified account @Winsidr Sep 16, 2024
The WNBA community is very familiar with the “common, sexist and lazy” rhetoric used to discredit the W. But this season has taken trolling to a new low.

@blakesilverman highlights the book, Slaying the Trolls, and analyzes the toxic shift in WNBA fandom.
winsidr.com/2024/09/david-…
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