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Dr. Sally Mason – President, University of Iowa

Trained as a cell developmental biologist, Sally Mason became the 20th president of the University of Iowa in 2007. She also holds a full professorship in the Department of Biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. At the University of Kansas, she received awards for outstanding undergraduate advising and teaching, later becoming dean […]

April 28, 2014

Dr. Michelle Khine – Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UC Irvine

Khine is a scientist, innovator, cofounder of Fluxion Biosciences, founder of the Shrink nanotechnology platform, as well as the assistant and founding professor of the School of Engineering at the University of California, Merced. Her research has resulted in technological advances in industries such as biological research and medical diagnostics. She has multiple patent grants […]

April 28, 2014

Dr. Mabel Jones Matthews – Director for the Office of Education Infrastructure Division, NASA

In her current position, Matthews shares responsibility for providing strategic leadership in NASA’s efforts in achieving excellence in STEM education. Matthews served as university program manager for NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Program. Previously, she served in several senior-level higher education positions, including vice president, dean of academic affairs, academic division chairperson and as […]

April 25, 2014

Dr. Muriel A. Howard – President, American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Howard, president of AASCU since 2009, is the first African-American to lead one of the six presidentially based higher education associations in Washington, D.C. She is also AASCU’s first female president. She is the former president of Buffalo State College, State University of New York and the vice president for public service and urban affairs […]

April 25, 2014

Dr. Yvonne Maddox – Deputy Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health

As the deputy director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health, Maddox guides the NICHD’s organizations and programs, and advises the director on internal affairs of the Institute’s $1.3 billion budget. Maddox has received both the Presidential Distinguished Executive Rank Award and the […]

April 25, 2014

Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry – Professor of Political Science, Tulane University

Host of her eponymously named show on MSNBC, Harris-Perry teaches political science at Tulane University. Her academic research is inspired by a desire to investigate the challenges facing contemporary Black Americans and to better understand the ways that African-Americans respond to these challenges. In 2009, Harris-Perry became the youngest scholar to deliver the W.E.B. Du […]

April 25, 2014

Dr. Marybeth Gasman – Professor of Higher Education, University of Pennsylvania

Gasman, a professor of higher education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, holds secondary appointments in history, Africana studies, and the School of Social Policy and Practice. She also directs the Center for Minority-Serving Institutions at Penn. Gasman has written or edited 15 books, including Envisioning Black Colleges: A History […]

April 25, 2014

Maribeth Gasman

Dr. Bernadette Gray-Little – Chancellor, University of Kansas

Gray-Little has been the chancellor of the University of Kansas since 2009. Previously, she was a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also held several top administrative posts, including executive vice chancellor and provost. She is vice chair of the board of trustees for the Online Computer […]

April 25, 2014

Bernadette Little

Nikki Giovanni – University Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech

Since establishing herself in the mid-’70s as a leading poetic voice and a major force in the Black arts movement, Giovanni has received 20 honorary doctorates and various other awards, including the Rosa Parks Woman of Courage Award and the Langston Hughes Award for Distinguished Contributions to Arts and Letters. She teaches writing and literature […]

April 25, 2014

Dr. Juliet V. García – President, University of Texas at Brownsville

García became president of The University of Texas at Brownsville in January 1992. When she was named president of Texas Southmost College in 1986, she became the fi rst Mexican American woman in the nation to become president of a college or university. García has advocated increasing access to higher education through innovation and experimentation, […]

April 25, 2014

Dr. Ana Gil-Garcia – University Professor, Northeastern Illinois University

Gil-Garcia is a three-time Fulbright U.S. Scholar, author and tenured professor at Northeastern Illinois University. An advocate for Latino educational leaders, she was named as one of the “Top Ten Chicago Latinos” in 2009. At the beginning of 2014, Chicago Public Schools appointed Gil-Garcia one of the 13 Latino Advisory Committee members, the District’s first-ever […]

April 25, 2014

Alecia DeCoudreaux – President, Mills College

DeCoudreaux had a distinguished career as a lawyer and senior executive at Eli Lilly and Company before becoming president of Mills College in July 2011. She has served as a trustee and board chair at Wellesley College, director of the Wellesley College Alumnae Association, honorary director of the Indiana University Foundation and a member of […]

April 25, 2014

Alecia De Coudreaux

Sandra Begay – Campbell Principal Member of the Technical Staff , Sandia National Laboratories

Begay-Campbell leads Sandia’s efforts to assist Native American tribes with their renewable energy developments. Campbell, who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory immediately aft er graduate school, received the American Indian Science and Engineering Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award and Stanford University’s Multicultural Alumni of the Year Award in 2000. Sandra is also a recipient of […]

April 25, 2014

Gilda R. Daniels – Associate Professor of Law, University of Baltimore

A voting rights expert, Daniels is an associate professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she teaches critical legal theory, election law and civil procedure. Her scholarship focuses on the intersections of race, law and democracy. Her law review articles have appeared in the Cardozo Law Review, the Denver University […]

April 25, 2014

Dr. France A. Cordova – President Emeritus, Purdue University

Cordova became Purdue University’s 11th and first female president in 2007, leading it to record levels of research funding while expanding its role as a top research institution on the global stage. A professor of physics and astronomy, she has published more than 200 scientific and public policy journal articles and conference abstracts. She was […]

April 25, 2014

Dr. Joyce Brown – President Fashion Institute of Technology

Brown became the sixth – and first female and first AfricanAmerican – president of the Fashion Institute of Technology, a specialized college of art and design, business and technology of the State University of New York in 1998. She has held senior administrative posts at the City University of New York, including acting president and […]

April 25, 2014

Dr. Sharon Beverly – Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs, The College of New Jersey

Beverly is the assistant vice president for student affairs and executive director of athletics and recreation at The College of New Jersey. Previously, she was director of athletics and physical education at Vassar College. In 2010, Beverly was named Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Woman Administrator of the Year. A student -athlete on Queens College’s women’s […]

April 25, 2014

Dr. Charlene Alexander – Associate Provost for Diversity, Ball State University

Alexander was appointed Ball State University’s associate provost for diversity and professor of counseling in July 2013. She has been on the faculty since 1997 and directed the counseling program since 1999. Alexander is also the past president of the Indiana School Counselor Association. Her research interests are in the areas of multicultural counseling, school […]

April 25, 2014

Charlene-Alexander

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