Ronald E. Hall graduated with distinction, after which his professional career began as a clinical social worker. His professional role encompassed the practice of individual and group psychotherapy with schizophrenic and manic-depressive clients. Subsequent to numerous clinical observations, Dr. Hall incorporated the notion of skin color, among people of color, as a critical dynamic of mental health. Having written his dissertation on skin color, in 1990 Dr. Hall testified as expert witness to America’s first skin color discrimination case between African Americans: Morrow v. IRS. Dr. Hall later devised the Bleaching Syndrome to explain discrimination among people of color and Identity Across the Lifespan as an alternative biracial identity model. Dr. Hall’s work includes more than 150 (co)-authored publications, interviews, and presentations on these topics, including articles on Justice Clarence Thomas and President Barack Obama via TIME magazine and Oprah Winfrey via The Color Complex, his latest book, which was updated and re-issued in 2013. His previous book is titled The Melanin Millennium (2012).  

Dr. Hall has lectured on skin color both domestically and internationally, including by invitation Bates College (Lewiston, ME), Pennsylvania State University (State College, PA) and Oxford University (Oxford, UK). In 2003, he won the Mellen Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship. In 2007, he was invited to Washington by a member of Congress to address issues pertaining to skin color. His most recent speaking events include Paramaribo, Suriname, where he was guest speaker for a medical convention on skin color. Dr. Hall also lectured on skin color in India at the Jindal Global University in Delhi and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai.