Alumni
Our Fellowship is fortunate to have nearly 120 alumni who have gone on to prominent roles as professors and researchers, authors, artists, policymakers, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and civic and social leaders. Together, they have made the Fellowship one of the nations’ leading programs for graduate study.
Here are some of the reported accomplishments of our alumni from the past year:
» REYNOLD BAILEY, MS ’04, PHD ’07
was promoted to full professor at Rochester Institute of Technology.
» KEONA ERVIN, MA ’05, PHD ’09
published a new book, Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis.
» KARMELLA HAYNES, PHD ’06
recently published two articles, one in Nature, and one in Nucleic Acids Research.
» GARY HOOVER, MA ’95, PHD ’98
became editor-in-chief of the Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy.
» KAHLIL IRVING, MFA ’17
was awarded the Alice C. Cole ’42 Fellowship at Wellesley College.
» SHAKIR JAMES, MS ’09, PHD ’12
accepted a new position as Chief Technology Officer for DTI Management and 1Ticket.
» FELIX LLOYD, MFA ’08
started a new company, Beanstack, that helps libraries and schools run result-driven reading challenges.
» BERTIN LOUIS, JR., MA ’03, PHD ’08
was promoted to associate professor of anthropology and Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He also recently published two articles.
» YVONNE OSEI, MFA ’16
won a 2018 St. Louis Visionary Award for her work as a conceptual artist.
» PAUL STERZING, PHD ’12
was promoted to associate professor at UC–Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare, where he also serves as co-chair of the MSW program.
» IAN WEAVER, MFA ’08
completed a summer art residency at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha.