Black Graduate Student Association

Dr. Bruce Smith - Director of African American Student Affairs; 2008-2009 BGSA-UA Faculty Advisor
Dr. Leslie Boyer - Medical Director, VIPER Institute
Dr. Brent Chrite - University of Arizona Eller Business College
Maiola Coleman
Marcus Coleman - Field Organizer, MLK Jr. National Day of Service
Tony Finley - CFO, Long Realty
Wyllistine Hill - Raytheon
Sheri Hill - Office of the President of the University of Arizona
Gail Hughley - Director of Development, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health; 2007-2008 BGSA-UA Faculty Advisor
Daisy Jenkins - Raytheon
Dr. Horatio Rilo
Dr. Colette Sims - Cultural Medical Anthropologist, University of Arizona
Chris Tisch - Assistant Dean of Student Affairs, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
Dr. Maria Teresa Velez - Associate Dean, Graduate College
Barbea Williams - Owner and Artistic Director, Barbea Williams Performing Company
Dr. Mikelle Smith Omari-Tunkara (aka Dr. O) - Professor of Art History at the
University of Arizona and proud BGSA-UA member
Dr. Erecia Hepburn
Nura Dualeh

Angela Reese

Angela is from Sacramento, California. When she is not studying she enjoys reading, and spending time with her friends and family. After graduating high school, Angela attended Mesa Community College where she was an active member of the biotechnology club and program. She became interested in science and participated in the Helios funded summer internship program at the Translational Genomics Institute where she worked in Dr. Daniel Von Hoff's pancreatic cancer research lab. Soon after she transferred to University of Arizona, she was accepted into the Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) program. She is currently getting her Bachelors of Science in Molecular and Cellular Biology, and working in Dr. Richard B. Levine's lab. She is also a member of the African Americans in Life (AALS) sciences club. Angela plans to peruse graduate school and eventually work in academia doing research on human diseases.

Kelena Jones

Kelena was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area in the sunny state of California. She has three siblings and a large extended family. Her favorite things to do when not in school are reading and recreational bicycling. She spent her first two years of college at Saint Mary's College of California, in Moraga, California, before deciding to come to the Univerisity of Arizona to pursue a BFA in Theater Education. Now a senior in the program, Kelena hopes to continue to impact students with the arts after she graduates in May 2010. She would like to further her studies in the dramatic arts and become a certified Drama Theapist. Kelena has taught many young people from Kindergarden through high school, in summer programs, after school enrichment programs and in a preschool with Jumpstart, a partner with AmeriCorps. She looks forward to the summer as a Team Leader for Camp Galileo one of the most renown day camps in the Bay Area and later in the fall of 2009, as she will be directing the ETC (educational theater company) production of Amazing Grace.