Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha has been promoted to the rank of full professor in the departments of public health and community medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and medicine in the School of Medicine at Tufts University in Boston. She is the founder and director of the Center of Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice and leads the Maternal Outcomes of Translational Health Equity Research Lab.
Dr. Amutah-Onukagha is a graduate of Rutgers University in New Jersey. She holds a master of public health degree from George Washington University and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.
Willie Jennings has been named the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale University. A Yale Divinity School faculty member for the past decade, he specializes in Christian thought, race theory, decoloniality, and environmental studies. He has authored several publications including the award-winning book, The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (Yale University Press, 2010).
Dr. Jennings is a graduate of Calvin College in Michigan. He holds a master of divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in religion and ethics from Duke University.
Timothy Lewis has been appointed director of the Black studies program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. A faculty member since 2017, he currently serves as an associate professor of political science and chair of the department of social work. His research specializes in the politics of marginalized and disadvantaged identities.
Dr. Lewis is a graduate of historically Black Tuskegee University in Alabama, where he earned bachelor’s degrees in political science and history. He holds a master’s degree in international relations from Troy University in Alabama and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
