Education
- Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Inst., AL, B.S. Biology
- University of California, San Francisco, Ph.D. Biochemistry and molecular biology
- University of California, San Francisco, Postdoctoral Fellow, Molecular Parasitology
Selected Honors and Awards
- Proclamation from Governor Guy Hunt of Alabama
- University of CA, San Francisco, Chancellor’s Martin Luther King
- University of CA, San Francisco Champions of Diversity Award
- Award of Recognition in Leadership from the California State
- Award of Leadership from Asiya Shriners, San Mateo CA
- Commencement Speaker, Emeryville Secondary School Emeryville, CA
- Kaleidoscope Magazine’s 40 Under 40 Club
- Who’s Who In Black Cleveland
- National Technical Association (Cleveland) Nsoroma Science Award
- Nominated for the CWRU Carl F Wittke Award for Undergraduate Teaching
- Nominated for the J. Bruce Jackson, M.D., Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring
- Keynote Speaker- March for Science, Cleveland Ohio
- Tuskegee University Homecoming Convocation Keynote Speaker
Commencement or Convocation Addresses
- Keynote Speaker San Francisco WORKS On-Ramp Biotech Program Graduation. J Gladstone Inst Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
- Commencement Speaker Emery Secondary School. Emeryville, CA
- City College San Francisco- Graduation Celebration Speaker- MESA, NSF STEM program, NIH Bridges , San Francisco, CA
- Tuskegee University Homecoming Convocation Speaker
Peer Review Study Sections or Program Reviews
- 2014 National Science Foundation, Committee of Visitors, IOS
- 2014 National Science Foundation, Grant Review Panel
- 2015 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
- 2016 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
- 2017 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
- 2018 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
- 2018 National Science Foundation Program Grant Review Panel
Consulting/ Nonprofit Organizations and External Advisory Boards:
- 2003-2006 – Building Diversity in the Sciences (www.bdis.us) Board of Director, Secretary
- 2006-2009 – Building Diversity in the Sciences (www.bdis.us/) Ph.D. Advisor
- 2006-2009 – National Association of Black Scientists, Advisor
- 2007- The Association of Underrepresented Minority Scholars, past-President of the Board of Directors (CoFounder, theAUMF.org)
- 2012- 2014 External Advisory Board for Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center of Dillard University and Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA
- 2017-present External Advisory Board of the Fisk University MARC U*STAR Program
Limited Sampling of Diversity Engagement (last 5 years):
- Who’s Who In Black Cleveland
- Current Search Committee member for CWRU Vice President of Diversity and Equal Opportuniy
- Women in Science and Engineering Roundtable (WISER) Faculty Advisory
- NOA-AGEP Organizational Meeting with Tuskegee University and establishment of CWRU-Tuskegee formal relationship
- Co-PI for the Case Western Alliances for Graduate Education (AGEP) and the Professoriate, a program to increase URM Faculty in STEM
- AGEP External Advisor – Louisiana State University
- External Advisory Board of the Fisk University MARC U*STAR Program
- Managed nonprofit that coordinated science outreach to URM school in Washington DC area
- Who’s Who In Black Cleveland
- Poster Session Judge for 2019 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM hosted by AAAS, EHR and the National Science Foundation, (objective to support emerging minority scientist
- Host minority high school and undergraduate students for summer research in my research laboratory
- Cleveland Clinic Physicians and Scientists annual speaker since 2010, geared to increasing URM future scientists and physicians
- Faculty Diversity Workshop Speaker- “Navigating the tenure process as a person of color: A male perspective”, CWRU, Cleveland, OH
- Past search committee member CWRU Associate Vice President of Diversity
- Recruiter Annual Biomedical Research Symposium for Minorities Students
- CoDirector and developer of UCSF Summer Program for Underrepresented Minority High Schools Students
- Past President and cofounder of the Association of Underrepresented Minority Scholars
- Scientific Enrichment and Opportunity Program Conference Speaker to minority high school students, CWRU School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH