STEM – Educators
Charles Drew (1904-1950)
Charles Richard Drew was a medical researcher, surgeon, and the first African American to be appointed as a medical examiner...
Alondra Nelson (1968- )
Alondra Nelson, lecturer, social scientist, administrator/organizer, was born on April 22, 1968, in Bethesda, Maryland, to career Navy parents Robert...
Shirley Mahaley Malcom (1946- )
Shirley Mahaley Malcom, a Senior Advisor and Director of SEA Change at the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
Olajide Williams (1969- )
Olajide Williams is an American neurologist and the creator of Hip-Hop Public Health. He is the Chief of Staff at...
Cheryl A. Swanier (1967- )
Dr. Cheryl A. Swanier is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and the Henry N. and Alice Carson Tisdale Endowed...
Chester Brown (1963- )
Dr. Chester Brown is a medical geneticist who currently serves as the St. Jude Chair of Excellence in Genetics, the...
Paul B. Cornely (1906-2002)
Paul B. Cornely is remembered today as a public health pioneer and civil rights leader whose activism contributed to the...
Vanessa Northington Gamble (1953- )
Vanessa N. Gamble is the first African American woman to teach as a professor of medical humanities, health policy, and...
Joseph L. Graves, Jr. (1955- )
Joseph L. Graves Jr. is a renowned geneticist and the first African American evolutionary biologist. Currently an Associate Dean for research...
