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Morehouse School of Medicine vulnerable to the ravaging virus, NOTABLE ALUMNI
was founded in 1975 at More- MSM physicians and researchers JOY BAKER TERRANCE JONES
house College as the Medical were ready to hit the front lines Board-certified OB-GYN physician Commander in the U.S. Public
Education Program—the first to care for hundreds of pandem- who completed a HRSA fellowship Health Service.
medical school established at ic victims in greater Atlanta. in Transformational Healthcare HEVAL MOHAMED KELLI
a historically Black college and Thanks to a prescient telemed- Leadership. Katz Foundation Fellow in Preven-
university in the 20th century. icine program, MSM physicians DR. REGINA BENJAMIN tive Cardiology at Emory University.
Six years later, MSM was inde- were able to broaden their pri- Eighteenth surgeon general of the
pendently chartered, offering mary and specialty care for pa- United States. JAMES D. LOCK
seven residency programs of pa- tients throughout rural Georgia. Associate chairman in the Dept. of
tient care and clinical training Amid the pandemic, the KRISTEN DAUSS Psychiatry at Stanford University.
at Grady Memorial Hospital. expertise of physicians and Chief medical officer for the Indiana
MSM, dedicated to creating researchers has attracted mil- Department of Correction. BONNIE SIMPSON MASON
and advancing health equity lions of dollars in federal and VP of diversity and inclusion for the
Accreditation Council for Graduate
among underserved popula- corporate grant funding to en- ANNE H. GAGLIOTI Medical Education (ACGME).
tions, has twice been named sure adequate testing and to Associate professor at MSM in the
by a national study as the top deliver critical information to Department of Family Medicine. MONIQUE C. SURLES ZEIGLER
medical school for social mis- communities hardest hit by the JENNIFER HARPER Researcher who completed a post-
sion. Now MSM is garnering pandemic. Millions more dollars Stage, television, and film actress. doctoral fellowship at Yale Univer-
attention for its response to the are also earmarked for critical sity.
COVID-19 pandemic. data gathering and analysis in CARL HILL
Already deeply familiar with real-time research aimed at ad- Senior vice president of scientific
the chronic health issues that vancing health equity in com- engagement for the Alzheimer’s
made its focal populations so munities of color. Association.

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Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta It also leads the nation in the NOTABLE ALUMNI
Baptist Female Seminary for number of Black women who STACEY ABRAMS JANINA JEFF
Black freedwomen, Spelman go on to earn doctorates in the Politician, lawyer, author and voting Human geneticist, educator and
College is the nation’s oldest sciences. rights activist. minority STEM activist.
private historically Black liberal Spelman is also widely known
arts college for women. Hun- for its Museum of Fine Art, the ROSALIND BREWER TAYARI JONES
dreds of distinguished women nation’s only museum that Chief operating officer and group Author of An American Marriage,
have graduated to have success- emphasizes art created by and president at Starbucks. Silver Sparrow, and others.
ful careers in the arts, literature, about women of the African di-
medicine and science, econom- aspora. Its collection includes PEARL CLEAGE BERNICE KING
ics and government. photography, paintings, wood Acclaimed writer and novelist. Minister and youngest child of civil
rights leaders Martin Luther King
Spelman educates more Gates carvings and pottery from DR. LISA COOK Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
Millennium Scholars than any throughout Africa as well as Professor and member of the
college or university in the na- works by celebrated African Biden-Harris transition team. DR. AUDREY FORBES MANLEY
tion and is a leading producer of American artists. Acting U.S. surgeon general
Fulbright Fellowship winners. MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN (1995-1997) and Spelman’s first
It is one of the nation’s leading Founder and president emerita of alumna president.
producers of Black female med- the Children’s Defense Fund.
ical students and doctoral can-
didates in science, technology, LATANYA RICHARDSON JACKSON
engineering and mathematics. Actress and producer.

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