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Karmella Ann Haynes is an American biomedical engineer and associate professor at the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. She researches how chromatin is used to control cell…
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Karol Virginia Mason is an American attorney, government appointee, and academic administrator, serving as the fifth president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice since August 2017. Formerly, she was an Assistant Attorney General in charge of the…
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Karrie Gibson Dixon is an American academic administrator serving as the thirteenth chancellor and chief executive officer of the North Carolina Central University since 2024. She was previously the Chancellor of Elizabeth City State University.
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Karsonya “Kaye” Wise Whitehead is an American historian, professor, author, radio host, and documentary filmmaker. Her work focuses on African American history, Black women’s history, public memory, education, race, gender, and contemporary Black life. She…
1953–
Karyne Denise Jones Conley (born 14 August 1953) is an American former politician. Karyne Denise Jones was born in San Antonio on 14 August 1953. She attended Clark University, graduating in 1975, before completing a master's degree in public…
1969–
Kasey E. Dunn (born July 22, 1969) is an American football coach and former wide receiver who most recently served as the offensive coordinator at Oklahoma State University.
1959–
Kasi Lemmons (; born Karen Diane Lemmons, February 24, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actress. She made her directorial debut with Eve's Bayou (1997), followed by The Caveman's Valentine (2001), Talk to Me (2007), Black Nativity…
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Kasso Akochayé Okoudjou is a Beninese-American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University. His research spans harmonic analysis, time–frequency analysis, and fractals, with particular focus on frame theory and its applications to signal…
1973–
Katharine Moana Birbalsingh (born 16 September 1973) is an education reform advocate and the founder and head teacher of Michaela Community School, a free school established in 2014 in Wembley Park, London. The daughter of an Indo-Guyanese academic and a…
1896–1982
Katherine Jefferson Flowers (1896–1982) was an African American dancer, choreographer and teacher who in 1944 opened the successful "Flowers School of Dance" in Chicago. She also carried out extensive research on the history of African American dance from…
1970–
Katherine McKittrick (born 1970), is a Canadian professor and academic, writer, and editor. She is a professor in Gender studies at Queen's University. She is an academic and writer whose work focuses on black studies, cultural geography, anti-colonial and…
1906–1996
Katherine Stewart Flippin (1906–1996) was a special educator in San Francisco and only daughter of lawyer McCants Stewart.
1972–2020
Katherine Williams Phillips (March 4, 1972 – January 15, 2020) was an American business theorist and the Reuben Mark Professor of Organizational Character at Columbia University's Business School, where she worked from 2011 until her passing in 2020. She…
1926–2008
Kathryn Lee Emanuel Lawson (September 15, 1926 – September 25, 2008) was one of the first few female African American chemists who worked in Sandia National Laboratories. She studied properties of irradiated materials in Crystal Physics research division.…
1961–
Katheryn Russell-Brown (born Katheryn K. Russell, September 17, 1961) is an American social scientist and children's author. She is emeritus professor of law and former director of the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations at University of…
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Kathleen Neal Cleaver (born May 13, 1945) is an American law professor and activist known for her involvement with the Black Power movement and the Black Panther Party (BPP). She was the BPP's Communications Secretary and the wife of its Minister of…
September 16, 2011
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe oral history consists of ten digital files: 2011.174.51.1a, 2011.174.51.1b, 2011.174.51.1c, 2011.174.51.1d, 2011.174.51.1e, 2011.174.51.1f, 2011.174.51.1g, 2011.174.51.1h, 2011.174.51.1i, and 2011.174.51.1j. Kathleen Cleaver, Ph. D. recalls growing up…
1942–1988
Kathleen Collins (March 18, 1942 – September 18, 1988) (also known as Kathleen Conwell, Kathleen Conwell Collins or Kathleen Collins Prettyman) was an African American polymath from Jersey City, New Jersey, notable for her contributions as poet,…
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Kathleen Oveta McElroy is an American academic and journalist, the holder of the Frank A. Bennack Jr. Chair in journalism, and the former director of the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin from 2018 to 2022.
1890–1993
Kathleen Redding Adams (July 11, 1890 – June 15, 1993) was a teacher both in Atlanta Public Schools and at the Carrie Steele Pitts Home, which was a home for orphans, as well as a prominent member of the First Congregational Church in Atlanta.
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Kathleen Wrsama was an Ethiopian-born British community organiser. She acquired the last name of Wrsama through her marriage to Solomon Wrsama. More details about their joint work are set out in the Biography section below. As a child she moved to England…
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Kathryn Elaine Jeffery is an American academic administrator who has been serving as superintendent/president of Santa Monica College in California since February 2016.
1878–1955
Kathryn Magnolia Johnson (December 15, 1878 – November 13, 1954) was an American political activist who began working as a teacher before becoming one of the first members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. After criticizing…
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Kathryn Sophia Belle, formerly known as Kathryn T. Gines (born 2 July 1978), is an American philosopher. She is associate professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. Much of her work has focused on increasing diversity within philosophy, and…
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