Erika Smith has been selected to serve as interim dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Connecticut College.
In addition to her new position, Dr. Smith will retain her current appointment as dean of the college. Prior to joining the Connecticut College community, she spent over two decades in various academic affairs roles at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Dr. Smith received her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and a master’s degree in education policy and management from Harvard University. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in social policy from Brandeis University.
Angela Gilmore has been appointed interim dean of the David A. Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia, a historically Black institution.
Most recently, Dr. Glimore served as the senior accreditation counsel for the America Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. Before that role, she was a professor of law and associate dean at North Carolina Central University for over a decade.
Professor Gilmore holds a bachelor’s degree from Houghton University in New York and a juris doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh.
Gail Orum-Alexander has been named dean of the College of Pharmacy at Marshall B. Ketchum University in Fullerton, California.
Dr. Orum-Alexander comes to her new role from the School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Keck Graduate Institute in Claremont, California, where she served as the associate dean of experiential education, associate dean of academic affairs, associate dean of assessment, and interim dean. Earlier in her career, she was dean of the College of Science and Health at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine Science in Los Angeles, one of four historically Black medical schools in the country.
A board-certified geriatric pharmacist, Dr. Orum-Alexander holds a doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of Southern California.
Theodorea Regina Berry has been named dean of the Bloomfield College at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
Since January 2020, Dr. Berry has served as vice provost and dean of the College of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. She previously served as chair of the department of African American studies at San Jose State University in California. She is the author of States of Grace: Counterstories of a Black Woman in the Academy (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2018).
Dr. Berry is a graduate of Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania, where she majored in communication. She holds a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction and a doctorate in curriculum and social policy from National-Louis University in Chicago.
