Amelia Kraehe has been appointed associate vice president of organizational excellence and impact for the Arizona arts division at the University of Arizona. A faculty member with the university since 2018, she previously served as associate vice president for equity in the arts. As a scholar, she focuses on the development of professional identities and organizational capacity within educational and cultural institutions.
Dr. Kraehe is a graduate of Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in studio art and economics. She holds a master’s degree in art education and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Texas at Austin.
Desmond Stephens has been named vice provost for academic affairs at Virginia State University. He comes to his new role from Florida A&M University, where he served as an associate professor of mathematics and associate dean for undergraduate activities in the College of Science and Technology.
A graduate of Delaware State University, Dr. Stephens received his master’s degree and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Florida Institute of Technology.
An expert on community economic development, affordable cooperative housing, social entrepreneurship, and cooperative enterprises, Elizabeth L. Carter will launch a new transactional community economic development clinic at Seton Hall Law School in Newark, New Jersey. Earlier, Professor Carter was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago in their Community Enterprise and Solidarity Economy Clinic.
Professor Carter earned a bachelor’s degree in political science, philosophy, and African-American studies from the University of Michigan. She holds a master’s degree in urban planning and a juris doctorate from Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Cedric Merlin Powell has been appointed associate dean for academic affairs at the Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. Prior to his new role, he was the law school’s associate dean for faculty research. Earlier, he was the Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs Professor of Law and Distinguished Professor at the University of Louisville. He is the author of Post-Racial Constitutionalism and the Roberts Court: Rhetorical Neutrality and the Perpetuation of Inequality (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Professor Powell is a graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio. He earned a juris doctorate at New York University, where he was the managing editor of The New York University Review of Law and Social Change.
