Boaz completed a Ph.D. in History with a specialization in Africa, the African Diaspora and the Caribbean from the University of Miami, a J.D. with a concentration in International Law from the University of Toledo and a LL.M. in Intercultural Human Rights from St. Thomas University. She is a licensed attorney in the states of Florida and North Carolina.
Dante Bryant, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work and College of Health and Human Services, and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of Africana Studies at UNC Charlotte.
Julia Robinson Moore (Ph.D., Michigan State University) joined the Department of Religious Studies at UNC Charlotte in 2005. She teaches courses in African American Religion, Religions of the African Diaspora, and Racial Violence in America. Her first book, "Race, Religion, and the Pulpit: Reverend Robert L.
Malin Pereira became executive director of the Honors College in August 2012. Dr. Pereira earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her undergraduate majors were in English and Psychology; master’s and doctorate were in English, with a minor in Afro-American Studies.
Rachel Austin has been a lecturer/instructor at a variety of higher education institutions, including a state university, a private four-year college, technical colleges and local community colleges throughout Central and Western North Carolina and the upper Piedmont of South Carolina.
Robert J. Cramer, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences and Belk Distinguished Scholar in Health Research at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Holding a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, his expertise includes suicide prevention, mental health, hate crimes, violence prevention, sexual and gender minority health, and theories of health and personality.
Shannon Sullivan is a professor of Philosophy and Health Psychology and chair of the Philosophy Department at UNC Charlotte. She is author or editor of eight books, including most recently "Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism" (2014), "The Physiology of Sexist and Racist Oppression" (2015), and "Feminist Interpretations of William James" (2015).
Sonya Ramsey is an associate professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at the UNC Charlotte. An experienced oral historian, she specializes in African American Gender History, the History of Education, and Southern History.
Susan McCarter, Ph.D., MSW, is an Associate Professor of Social Work at UNC Charlotte. Dr. McCarter’s career began as a juvenile probation officer, inner-city mental health counselor, and policy analyst and advocate in Virginia, where she earned her MSW (Clinical) and her Ph.D.
Taryne Mingo, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of school counseling in the Department of Counseling at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Mingo has a professional background in elementary school counseling, racial identity development, and advocating for social justice across P-16 settings.
