About New Demographic

New Demographic is a diversity education firm dedicated to promoting relaxed, authentic, and productive conversations about race. We offer speaking, training, and executive coaching services to those organizations ready to go beyond Diversity 101 and jump-start a real conversation about race.

About Carmen Van Kerckhove

Carmen Van Kerckhove [pronounced Van Kurr-Cove], president of the diversity education firm New Demographic, specializes in working with corporations to facilitate relaxed, authentic, and productive conversations about race. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and has visited as a guest lecturer at Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia, among many other colleges and universities across the country. She reaches over a quarter million people each month through her award-winning blogs, podcast, and newsletters.

Carmen is of mixed Chinese and Belgian heritage. She was born and mostly raised in Hong Kong, but also spent much of her childhood living in Shanghai and Belgium. Carmen graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Political Science. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband.