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HBCU Task Force Committee

Onyebuchi Arah

  • Ph.D, Professor of Epidemiology
  • Affiliated Professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science
  • Associate Dean of Graduate Education at the Division of Graduate Education

Alejandra Elizalde

  • B.A., Office Administrator for VC Wakimoto

Lorrie Frasure

  • Ph.D., Professor of Political Science and African American Studies 
  • Ralph J. Bunche Endowed Chair 
  • Director for the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies 
  • Faculty Director for the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

Cheryl Keyes

  • Ph.D., Professor of Global Jazz Studies and Ethnomusicology (Contemporary Jazz, Hip Hop)
  • Chair for the Department of African American Studies 

Vickie Mays

  • Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Health Policy & Management
  • Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Black Life

Ketema Paul

  • Ph.D., Professor of Integrative Biology & Physiology and Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences 
  • Co-Director of the Bunche Fellows Program
  • HBCU Task Force Chair 2023-2024

Amy Rowat

  • Ph.D., Professor and Vice Chair of Integrative Biology & Physiology
  • The Marcie Rothman Presidential Chair 
  • Special Advisor to VC Wakimoto and the Office of Research and Creative Activities

Zoe Stathopoulos

  • MSPH, MA, Director of Operations, Global Health Program David Geffen School of Medicine
  • Special Liaison to the Congo Basin Institute Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities 

Courtney Thomas Tobin

  • Ph.D., Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences 
  • Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion for Fielding School of Public Health 
  • Co-Director of the Bunche Fellows Program

Nasia Turner

  • Ed.M., Historically Black Colleges & Universities Coordinator 

Roger Wakimoto

  • Ph.D., Vice Chancellor for Research & Creative Activities

Stephanie White

  • Ph.D., Professor of Integrative Biology And Physiology
  • William Scheibel Term Chair in Neuroscience 
  • Chair for the Undergraduate Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program

David Yoo

  • Ph.D., Professor of Asian American Studies & History 
  • Vice Provost of the UCLA Institute of American Cultures