63 Notable alumni of
Spelman College
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Spelman College is 1016th in the world, 372nd in North America, and 350th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 63 notable alumni from Spelman College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Stacey Abrams
- Enrolled in Spelman College
- 1991-1995 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in interdisciplinary studies
- Occupations
- juristentrepreneurvoting rights activistpolitical activistwriter
- Biography
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Stacey Yvonne Abrams is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Abrams founded Fair Fight Action, an organization to address voter suppression, in 2018. Her efforts have been widely credited with boosting voter turnout in Georgia, including in the 2020 presidential election, when Joe Biden narrowly won the state, and in Georgia's 2020–21 regularly scheduled and special U.S. Senate elections, which gave Democrats control of the Senate.
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Alice Walker
- Enrolled in Spelman College
- Studied in 1961
- Occupations
- essayistclimate activistcivil rights advocateshort story writerchildren's writer
- Biography
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Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry.
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Tati Gabrielle
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Tatiana Gabrielle Hobson is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Gaia on The CW science fiction television series The 100, Prudence on the Netflix original series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and Marienne Bellamy on the Netflix series You. She also provided the voice of Willow Park on the Disney animated series The Owl House, and played Jo Braddock in the 2022 movie Uncharted and Hannah Kim on the Netflix series Kaleidoscope.
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Keshia Knight Pulliam
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Keshia Knight Pulliam is an American actress. She began her career as a child actor, and landed her breakthrough role as Rudy Huxtable, on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–1992), which earned her a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in A Comedy Series at the 38th Primetime Emmy Awards. She later starred as Miranda Lucas-Payne on the TBS comedy drama Tyler Perry's House of Payne (2007–present).
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Esther Rolle
- Occupations
- television actordancerstage actorfilm actoractor
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Esther Elizabeth Rolle was an American actress. She is best known for her role as Florida Evans, on the CBS television sitcom Maude, for two seasons (1972–1974), and its spin-off series Good Times, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1976. In 1979, Rolle won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Special for the television film Summer of My German Soldier.
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Bernice King
- Occupations
- chief executive officerlawyeractivist
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Bernice Albertine King is an American lawyer, minister, and the youngest child of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King. She was five years old when her father was assassinated. In her adolescence, King chose to work towards becoming a minister after having a breakdown from watching a documentary about her father. King was 17 when she was invited to speak at the United Nations. Twenty years after her father was assassinated, she preached her trial sermon, inspired by her parents' activism.
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Cassi Davis
- Enrolled in Spelman College
- Studied in 2009
- Occupations
- television actorstage actorfilm actoractorvoice actor
- Biography
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Cassandra Davis-Patton is an American actress best known for her role as Ella Payne on Tyler Perry's House of Payne and its spin-off series The Paynes. She is also known as Aunt Bam in the Madea franchise since 2010. She has starred in several other productions under the direction of Tyler Perry.
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LaTanya Richardson
- Occupations
- film directorstage actortelevision actorfilm actor
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LaTanya Richardson Jackson is an American actress. She began her career appearing in off-Broadway productions, before playing supporting roles on television and film.
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Alberta Williams King
- Biography
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Alberta Christine Williams King was an American civil rights organizer best known as the mother of Martin Luther King Jr., and as the wife of Martin Luther King Sr. She was the choir director of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. She was shot and killed in the church by 23-year-old Marcus Wayne Chenault six years after the assassination of her eldest son Martin Luther King Jr.
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Erica Tazel
- Enrolled in Spelman College
- Studied in 1997
- Occupations
- actorstage actor
- Biography
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Erica Tazel is an American theatre and television actress best known for the role of US Deputy Marshal Rachel Brooks in the FX television series Justified (2010–2015).
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Adrienne-Joi Johnson
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Adrienne-Joi Johnson is an American actress, choreographer, fitness trainer, and life coach. Acting since 1987, Johnson has made many guest appearances on sitcoms, television dramas and music videos; she also has numerous supporting roles in films, including House Party and Baby Boy.
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Christine King Farris
- Occupations
- civil rights advocatewriterteacher
- Biography
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Willie Christine King Farris was an American teacher and civil rights activist. King was the sister of Martin Luther King Jr. She taught at Spelman College and was the author of several books and was a public speaker on various topics, including the King family, multicultural education, and teaching.
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Marian Wright Edelman
- Occupations
- writerlawyerchildren's rights activist
- Biography
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Marian Wright Edelman is an American activist for civil rights and children's rights. She is the founder and president emerita of the Children's Defense Fund. She influenced leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr.
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Shaun Robinson
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorjournalist
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Shaun Robinson is an American television host, author, producer, philanthropist, television personality and actress. She is perhaps best known for hosting Access Hollywood (1999–2015) and 90 Day Fiancé and its spin-offs (2016–present). Her accolades include an Emmy Award for her live coverage of A Grand Night in Harlem for the Black Sports and Entertainment Hall of Fame.
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Rolonda Watts
- Occupations
- television actorfilm actoractortelevision presenter
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Rolonda Watts is an American actress, producer, and television and radio talk show host. She is best known for hosting the eponymous Rolonda, an internationally syndicated talk show which aired from 1994 to 1997. Watts was the on-camera announcer for Judge Joe Brown, which ended its run in 2013. She is currently the announcer for Sherri.
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Tayari Jones
- Occupations
- novelistuniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Tayari Jones is an American author and academic known for An American Marriage, which was a 2018 Oprah's Book Club Selection, and won the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction. Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, the University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She is currently a member of the English faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University, and recently returned to her hometown of Atlanta after a decade in New York City. Jones was Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-large at Cornell University before becoming Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University.
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Lisa D. Cook
- Occupations
- officialuniversity teachereconomist
- Biography
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Lisa DeNell Cook is an American economist who has served as a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since May 23, 2022. She is the first African American woman and first woman of color to sit on the Board. Before her appointment to the Federal Reserve, she was elected to the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
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Kiron Skinner
- Occupations
- officialwriter
- Biography
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Kiron Kanina Skinner is a former Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State in the Trump administration. Skinner is presently the Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, where she teaches graduate courses in national security and public leadership. Prior to that, she was the Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics at Carnegie Mellon University, and the founding director of the Institute for Politics and Strategy and associated centers at the university. She is also the W. Glenn Campbell Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. After leaving the Department of State, she returned to her position at Carnegie Mellon University until stepping down in 2021.
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Bernice Johnson Reagon
- Occupations
- singerhistoriancomposer
- Biography
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Bernice Johnson Reagon is a song leader, composer, scholar, and social activist, who in the early 1960s was a founding member of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee's (SNCC) Freedom Singers in the Albany Movement in Georgia. In 1973, she founded the all-black female a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock, based in Washington, D.C. Reagon, along with other members of the SNCC Freedom Singers, realized the power of collective singing to unify the disparate groups who began to work together in the 1964 Freedom Summer protests in the South.
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AverySunshine
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Denise Nicole White, known professionally as AverySunshine, is an American singer, songwriter and pianist.
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Nic Stone
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Andrea Nicole Livingstone, known as Nic Stone, is an American author of young adult fiction and middle grade fiction, best known for her debut novel Dear Martin and her middle grade debut, Clean Getaway. Her novels have been translated into six languages.
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Dovey Johnson Roundtree
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Dovey Mae Johnson Roundtree was an African-American civil rights activist, ordained minister, and attorney. Her 1955 victory before the Interstate Commerce Commission in the first bus desegregation case to be brought before the ICC resulted in the only explicit repudiation of the "separate but equal" doctrine in the field of interstate bus transportation by a court or federal administrative body. That case, Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company (64 MCC 769 (1955)), which Dovey Roundtree brought before the ICC with her law partner and mentor Julius Winfield Robertson, was invoked by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy during the 1961 Freedom Riders' campaign in his successful battle to compel the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce its rulings and end Jim Crow laws in public transportation.
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Kiran Ahuja
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- politicianinternational forum participantcivil servant
- Biography
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Kiran Arjandas Ahuja is an American attorney and activist serving as the director of the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM). She served as the chief of staff to the OPM director from 2015 to 2017. She assumed that position after serving for six years as the director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. An Indian-born American, she has also been a lawyer with the United States Department of Justice and a founding director of a non-profit, the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum. In 2017, she became the CEO of Philanthropy Northwest.
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Laurie Cumbo
- Enrolled in Spelman College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Laurie A. Cumbo is an American politician and Commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. A Democrat, she served in the New York City Council for the 35th district from 2014 to 2021, which includes the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Prospect Heights, portions of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and Vinegar Hill. She is the founder and first executive director of the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts.
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Marcelite J. Harris
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Marcelite J. Harris was an American who became the first African-American female general officer of the United States Air Force.
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Mattiwilda Dobbs
- Occupations
- opera singer
- Biography
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Mattiwilda Dobbs was an American coloratura soprano and was one of the first black singers to enjoy a major international career in opera. She was the first black singer to perform at La Scala in Italy, the first black woman to receive a long-term performance contract and to sing a lead role at the Metropolitan Opera, New York and the first black singer to play a lead role at the San Francisco Opera.
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Tia Fuller
- Occupations
- saxophonistconductorbandleaderjazz musician
- Biography
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Tia Fuller is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator, and a member of the all-female band touring with Beyoncé. Fuller is currently a faculty member in the ensembles department at Berklee College of Music. Fuller was a Featured Jazz Musician in Pixar's full length computer-animated feature Soul. For the film Fuller plays an alto saxophone with a Vandoren mouthpiece for the character Dorothea Williams. The appearance of Dorothea Williams is influenced by Fuller, and the character's speaking lines are voiced by Angela Bassett.
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Ruha Benjamin
- Enrolled in Spelman College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- sociologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Ruha Benjamin is a sociologist and a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. The primary focus of her work is the relationship between innovation and equity, particularly focusing on the intersection of race, justice and technology. Benjamin is the author of numerous publications, including the books People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019) and Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want (2022).
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Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson
- Occupations
- activist
- Biography
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Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from its earliest days in 1960 until her death in October 1967. She served the organization as an activist in the field and as an administrator in the Atlanta central office. She eventually succeeded James Forman as SNCC's executive secretary and was the only woman ever to serve in this capacity. She was well respected by her SNCC colleagues and others within the movement for her work ethic and dedication to those around her. SNCC Freedom Singer Matthew Jones recalled, "You could feel her power in SNCC on a daily basis". Jack Minnis, director of SNCC's opposition research unit, insisted that people could not fool her. Over the course of her life, she served 100 days in prison for the movement.
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Audrey F. Manley
- Occupations
- pediatricianacademic administrator
- Biography
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Audrey Forbes Manley is an American pediatrician and public health administrator. Manley was the first African-American woman appointed as chief resident at Cook County Children's Hospital in Chicago (1962). Manley was the first to achieve the rank of Assistant Surgeon General (Rear Admiral) in 1988 and later served as the eighth president of Spelman College.
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Adrienne Adams
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Adrienne Eadie Adams is an American politician serving as Speaker of the New York City Council. A Democrat, Adams represents the 28th district, and is the first woman elected to the district.
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Loretta Copeland Biggs
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Loretta Yvonne Copeland Biggs is a United States District Court Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.
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Paula Hicks-Hudson
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Paula S. Hicks-Hudson is an American politician who has served as a member of the Ohio Senate from the 11th district since 2022. She is the former Mayor of Toledo, Ohio.
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Malikha Mallette
- Occupations
- actornarratorradio personality
- Biography
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Malikha Mallette is an American former radio personality, voice-over artist and actress. She is most known for her former work at New York radio station Power 105, where she previously hosted afternoon drive.
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Evelynn M. Hammonds
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Evelynn Maxine Hammonds is an American feminist and scholar. She is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University, and former Dean of Harvard College. The intersections of race, gender, science and medicine are prominent research topics across her published works. Hammonds received degrees in engineering and physics. Before getting her PhD in the History of Science at Harvard, she was a computer programmer. She began her teaching career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, later moving to Harvard. In 2008, Hammonds was appointed dean, the first African-American and the first woman to head the college. She returned to full-time teaching in 2013.
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Bernette Joshua Johnson
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Bernette Joshua Johnson is an American lawyer from New Orleans, who served as the chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court from 2013 to 2020.
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Spike Trotman
- Occupations
- publishercomics artist
- Biography
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Charlie Spike Trotman also known as C. Spike Trotman, is an American cartoonist and publisher known for creating the long-running web comic Templar, Arizona, and for publishing the Smut Peddler anthologies of what she describes as "lady centric porn". She is the founder and owner of Iron Circus Comics, an indie comics publisher which Forbes described as "a powerhouse of the indy landscape."
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Namina Forna
- Occupations
- writernovelistscreenwriterfantasy authorfilm screenwriter
- Biography
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Namina Forna is a Sierra Leonean American author of young adult fiction and a screenwriter. Her debut novel The Gilded Ones was published in February 2021 and quickly entered the New York Times and Indie Bestseller lists.
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Linda Goode Bryant
- Occupations
- galleristfilm director
- Biography
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Linda Goode Bryant is an African-American documentary filmmaker and activist. She founded the gallery Just Above Midtown (JAM), which was the focus of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in the fall of 2022, organized by curator Thomas Lax.
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Selena Sloan Butler
- Years
- 1872-1964 (aged 92)
- Occupations
- educator
- Biography
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Selena Sloan Butler was the founder and first president of the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers Association (NCCPT). President Herbert Hoover appointed her to the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection in 1929. During World War II, she organized the Red Cross' first black women's chapter of "Gray Ladies." When Congress merged the NCCPT with the National PTA in 1970, Butler was posthumously recognized as one of the organization's founders. Today, Butler is considered a co-founder of the National Parent-Teacher Association.
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Monica Montgomery
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Monica Montgomery Steppe is an American politician in San Diego, California. She currently serves as a member of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors representing District 4 after winning a special election to succeed Nathan Fletcher. Previously, she served on the San Diego City Council representing Council District 4. She is a Democrat, although county board positions are officially nonpartisan per California state law. She serves on the board of the California Reparations Task Force.
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Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 80)
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons, formerly Gwendolyn Robinson, is senior lecturer emerita following her retirement from the University of Florida in 2019. Her research has explored Islamic feminism and the impact of Sharia law on Muslim women. She is a civil rights activist, serving as a member of both the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Nation of Islam (NOI). Simmons has received a number of prestigious fellowships, including a Fulbright Fellowship, USAID Fellowships, and an American Center of Oriental Research Fellowship.
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Marcia Price
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marcia Simone "Cia" Price is an American politician of the Democratic Party. On November 3, 2015, she was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 95th district, which includes parts of the cities of Hampton and Newport News. She is the daughter of Newport News Mayor McKinley L. Price and the niece of Congressman Bobby Scott. She sponsored the Voting Rights Act of Virginia.
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Aurelia E Brazeal
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Aurelia Erskine Brazeal is a retired American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia, United States Ambassador to Kenya and United States Ambassador to Ethiopia.
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Blanche Armwood
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- 1890-1939 (aged 49)
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Blanche Mae Armwood, educator, activist and the first African-American woman in the state of Florida to graduate from an accredited law school. Armwood was also the first Executive Secretary of the Tampa Urban League and a founder of five Household Industrial Arts Schools for African-American women in five different states. Armwood High School in Seffner, Florida is named in her honor.
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Monica Cox
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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Monica Farmer Cox is a professor of engineering education at Ohio State University. Cox was the first African-American woman to earn tenure in engineering at Purdue University. She won the 2008 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
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Talitha Washington
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Talitha Washington is an American mathematician and academic who specializes in applied mathematics and STEM education policy. She was recognized by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2018 Honoree. Washington became the 26th president of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 2023.
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Heather McTeer Toney
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- environmentalist
- Biography
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Heather McTeer Toney is an American politician, environmentalist, attorney, and civil servant. In 2014, Toney was appointed as a regional administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for the Southeast region by President Barack Obama. Prior to this, Toney served as the first woman and African American to serve as mayor of Greenville, Mississippi, a position she held from 2004 to 2011.
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Tiona Nekkia McClodden
- Occupations
- visual artist
- Biography
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Tiona Nekkia McClodden is an interdisciplinary research-based conceptual artist, filmmaker and curator based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Ada E. Brown
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Ada Elene Brown is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. She is a former trial judge of the Dallas County courts and a former Justice of the Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas. She is the first African-American woman federal judge nominated by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate. She is also the first African American woman to sit as a federal judge in the 140- year-history of the Northern District of Texas. A citizen of the Choctaw Nation, Brown is also one of six actively serving Native American federal judges of 673 federal district court judges. When appointed to the federal bench, Brown became the only woman judge in the 233-year history of the Choctaw Nation to serve as a federal judge.
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Lashanda Holmes
- Occupations
- aircraft pilot
- Biography
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La'Shanda R. Holmes is a lieutenant commander in the United States Coast Guard and the first African-American female helicopter pilot for the Coast Guard. She grew up in the foster care system and put herself through Spelman College. She was an Aircraft Commander at Air Station Los Angeles, Air Station Atlantic City, and Air Station Miami. She has amassed over 2,000 flight hours conducting search and rescue, counter drug, law enforcement, and Presidential air-intercept missions. She was appointed as a White House Fellow in 2015 by President Barack Obama. In
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Evelyn La Rue Pittman
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Evelyn La Rue Pittman was an author, composer, choral director, producer, and music educator.
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Jewell Mazique
- Years
- 1913-2007 (aged 94)
- Occupations
- clerkwriteractivist
- Biography
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Jewell R. Mazique was an activist who helped found the Capital Transit campaign with United Federal Workers to integrate Washington D.C.'s bus operators. Mazique wrote extensively for The Washington Afro-American newspaper on topics such as the United Nations position on African Nations, and how black children were being educated in DC schools. She served on the National Council for the Southern Negro Youth Congress in 1945, a group claimed to be a Communist front organization.
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Georgia Rooks Dwelle
- Occupations
- obstetricianphysician
- Biography
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Georgia Rooks Dwelle was a physician in Atlanta, Georgia who specialized in obstetrics and pediatrics. When Dwelle was licensed as a physician in 1904, she was one of only three African American women physicians in the state of Georgia. Dwelle began to practice medicine at a time when Jim Crow laws and social customs in Georgia required racial segregation in medical schools, health care facilities, and medical societies. To counter the lack of medical care for African-Americans in Atlanta, Dwelle opened the Dwelle Infirmary which was the first successful private general hospital for African Americans in Atlanta, and the first obstetrical hospital for African American women in Atlanta.
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Harriet Mitchell Murphy
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- Died in 2024
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Harriet Mitchell Murphy was the first African-American woman appointed to a regular judgeship in Texas.
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Nora A. Gordon
- Occupations
- missionaryteacher
- Biography
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Nora A. Gordon was an African American missionary and teacher.
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Angelou Ezeilo
- Enrolled in Spelman College
- Studied in 1992
- Occupations
- activistentrepreneur
- Biography
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Angelou Ezeilo is an American social entrepreneur and environmental activist. She is the founder of Greening Youth Foundation, a nonprofit that connects underrepresented youth to the outdoors and conservation careers. She received an Ashoka Fellowship in 2016.
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Adrienne S. O'Neal
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Adrienne S. O'Neal is the former United States Ambassador to Cape Verde. On June 24, 2011, O'Neal was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as Ambassador and was then confirmed by the United States Senate on October 18, 2011. O'Neal presented her credentials to Cape Verde's president, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, on December 9, 2011.
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Clara Ann Howard
- Years
- 1866-1935 (aged 69)
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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Clara Ann Howard was an American educator and, from 1890 to 1895, a Baptist missionary in Africa.
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Emma Bertha Delaney
- Occupations
- educator
- Biography
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Emma Beard Delaney was a Baptist missionary and teacher, one of the earliest African-American missionaries from USA who worked in Africa, specifically Liberia and the British Central Africa Protectorate (now Malawi).
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Joycelyn Harrison
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Joycelyn Harrison is an African-American engineer who is Associate Dean of the College of Aeronautics and Engineering at Kent State University. In 2006 she was awarded the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal. Her research considers the development of novel piezoelectric materials.
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Effie Ellis
- Years
- 1913-1994 (aged 81)
- Occupations
- pediatrician
- Biography
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Effie O'Neal Ellis was an American pediatrician, child medical care consultant, and an activist for infant health and maternal education. Ellis was the first African American woman to hold an executive position in the American Medical Association. In 1989, Ellis was inducted to the Chicago Women's Hall of Fame for her efforts in improving the lives of the black community and helping to lower infant mortality rates.
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Maxine D. Hayes
- Years
- 1946-.. (age 78)
- Enrolled in Spelman College
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in biology
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Maxine D. Hayes is an American public health expert who was the State Health Officer for Washington state from 1998 until 2013. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2006 and awarded the American Public Health Association Martha May Eliot Award.
