Read more about how they became involved in EDI work, what their school’s most pressing EDI issue has been, and what the future holds in the spring issue of “CATALYST” magazine.
Equity and Justice is a core values set at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). At each of UMB’s schools, equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) assistant/associate deans work to ensure that UMB embraces and is committed to diversity.
CATALYST caught up with the schools’ EDI officers to discuss their work: Eleanor Fleming, DDS, PhD, MPH, FICD, assistant dean for EDI, School of Dentistry; Shani Fleming, MSHS, MPS, PA-C, chief EDI officer, Graduate School; Russell McClain, JD, associate dean for diversity and inclusion, Francis King Carey School of Law; Sandra Quezada, MD, MS, AGAF, associate dean for faculty diversity and inclusion, School of Medicine; Chanel F. Whittaker, PharmD, BCGP, FASCP, assistant dean for equity, diversity, and inclusion, School of Pharmacy; and Neijma Celestine-Donnor, MSW, LCSW-C, assistant dean for DEI and director, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, School of Social Work.
We discussed how they became involved in EDI work, what their school’s most pressing EDI issue has been, and what the future holds.
The School of Nursing announced in April that Yvette Conyers, DNP, MS, RN, FNP-C, CTN-B, CFCN, CFCS, will be joining the school on June 5 as its new associate dean for equity, diversity, and inclusion. We look forward to speaking to the new associate dean in a future issue of CATALYST magazine and promoting her work.
Read their interviews in the spring issue of CATALYST magazine.
You can read the Spring 2023 issue of CATALYST magazine, which highlights the work of the University's women deans; the School of Medicine’s research to fight malaria; the School of Nursing’s partnership with Enoch Pratt Library to offer health care; the Graduate School’s new MS in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership; UMB’s sustainability efforts to install beehives; and much, much more!
Pictured: Sandra Quezada (top left, clockwise); Chanel F. Whittaker; Shani Fleming; Eleanor Fleming; Neijma Celestine-Donnor; and Russell McClain.