Chester Middlebrook Pierce

Chester M. Pierce
Born
Chester Middlebrook Pierce

(1927-03-04)March 4, 1927
Glen Cove, New York, U.S.
DiedSeptember 23, 2016(2016-09-23) (aged 89)
OccupationPsychiatrist
Known forHarvard University Professor, Senior Consultant for Sesame Street, Creator of term microaggression

Chester Middlebrook Pierce ((1927-03-04)March 4, 1927 – (2016-09-23)September 23, 2016) was an American psychiatrist and tenured professor of education and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He was the first African-American full professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and was past president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Orthopsychiatric Association. He was a fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1] He was a senior consultant for the acclaimed educational children's television series Sesame Street.[2] He also coined and developed the term "microaggression".

  1. ^ "Karplus To Supervise Burroughs Wellcome fellow". The Harvard University Gazette. September 25, 1997. Archived from the original on August 31, 1999.
  2. ^ Harrington, Anne (May 17, 2019). "The Forgotten Tale of How Black Psychiatrists Helped Make 'Sesame Street'". Undark Magazine – via The Daily Beast.