Kevin J. Matthews
Director, External Affairs
Director, NCAS Northeast Regional Office
(617) 373-4256
[email protected]


Kevin J. Matthews is the Director of External Affairs of Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society which manages press relations, print and web publications.He also manages collaborations between Sport in Society and other individuals and organizations.

Matthews been quoted in publications such as tthe New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Toronto Sun, the Ottawa Sun, the Christian Science Monitor, the Miami Herald, the Hartford Courant, the Worcester Telegram and Gazette, the Boston Herald, ABCNews.com, and the Sports Business News. He has appeared on CNBC, WFXT-TV (Fox 25), and NECN (New England Cable News channel).

Matthews also serves as the Director of the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS) Northeast Regional Office. (1998-present)

Previous Experience

Previously, Matthews was the Research Director for three editions of the annual Racial and Gender Report Card. The internationally recognized publication is a comprehensive analysis of the hiring practices of women and people of color in the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, MLS, WNBA, and the NCAA and its member institutions.

The Racial and Gender Report Card has been written about in Associated Press, USA Today, ESPN, the New York Times, Newsweek, Sports-Business Journal, the Miami Herald, and cited in the Journal for Sports Management, and the Journal of Sport and Social Issues.

Matthews joined the Center for the Study of Sport in Society in August of 1997. Matthews has worked for Northeastern University since 1995 and is also a Northeastern alum. At Sport in Society, Matthews has also worked as the Community Outreach Coordinator for the Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) Program and the Teamwork Leadership Initiative (TLI) Program on the national level.

Matthews came to Sport in Society from the Northeastern University Botanical Research Center where he had worked for three years. Matthews was closely involved with the modernization program that was undertaken at the Woburn, MA facility. Previous to that Matthews worked in the horticulture industry for 10 years.

Education

Matthews owns a Bachelor of Science Degree in Operations Management from Northeastern University.

Matthews also owns a Non-Profit Management Certificate from Northeastern University.

Personal

He resides in Sudbury, MA with his wife Prema and his nephew, Danny.