PARTNERS
The work of improving the lives of underrepresented people requires teamwork . Below you will find the professionals that, in there own area, work toward that end.
Dr. Tommy Curry
Personal Chair in Africana Philosophy & Black Male Studies
University of Edinburgh
His research interests are 19th century ethnology, Critical Race Theory & Black Male Studies. He is the author of The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood (Temple University Press 2017), which won the 2018 American Book Award, and Another white Man’s Burden: Josiah Royce’s Quest for a Philosophy of Racial Empire (SUNY Press 2018), which recently won the Josiah Royce Prize for American Idealist Thought.
Dr. Clenora Hudson-Weems
Foremost Africana Womanist Scholar
Professor of English
University of Missouri
https://clenorahudson.com/
Lynda Gibson PhD
Child Psycholgist Senior Research Associate
Dr. Gibson research and clinical work focuses on risk andresiliency factors in African American communities, barriers to treatment for minority families, early exposure to trauma and community violence, and strategies for building
trauma-informed schools. Dr. Gibson is a member of the Diversity Committee for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology; as well as a member of the Race and Trauma Committee for the Illinois Childhood Trauma Coalition.
312-355-1293
Email - [email protected]
Dr. Brittany Henry, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist AWARE Program Manager Health and Human Services Seminole Tribe of Florida
Dr. Henry is passionate about serving organizations and communities to provide practical strategies in the areas of program and organizational development, mental health awareness, prevention and wellness, and leadership development. Operating from a strength-based, systemic perspective, I offer motivational and transformational leadership. I am dedicated to the development of outcome-driven programs to facilitate collaborative engagement with stakeholders and within organizations. .
954-985-2320
Jalaal Hayes PhD
Award-Winning Applied Chemist| STEM Speaker & Communicator| Specialty: Renewable Energy Technologies
As a North Philadelphia native, he became the youngest Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry in America at the age of 22. His mission is to help students and educators to increase engagement in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) with the integration of the arts (STEAM) through interactive workshops, speaking engagements, and curriculum development.
(484) 380-5280
https://www.drjalaalhayes.com/
Dr. Hakeem Oluseyi
Astrophysicist | President @ NSBP Inc. | STEM Educator & Author | Visiting Robinnson Professor @ George Mason University
Hakeem Oluseyi is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, educator, television personality, and public speaker. He was a Distinguished Professor of Aerospace, Physics, and Space Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2019 and has held professorships at MIT, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Washington, and the University of Cape Town.