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Rudolph Sellers
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James Brown, PhD
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Lorie Smith Goshin,
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Kenya Harris, EdD, RN
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Jan Oosting Kaminsky, PhD, RN-BC
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H. "Herukhuti" Sharif Williams, PhD, MEd
Rudolph Sellers is a communications and media major at CUNY SPS in his senior year and a member of the Black Student Union. Once cited by Forrester as a leader driving industry best practice in digital, Rudi has over 15 years’ experience delivering major user research projects, product implementations, and strategic customer improvement initiatives. He is an Associate Partner at IBM. Rudi has an MBA from the University of Northampton, a Post Graduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship from the University of Cambridge and an advanced diploma in IT systems analysis and Design from the University of Oxford.
Dr. James Brown has been teaching online for CUNY School of Professional Studies since 2012. He is a former Assistant Commissioner of Health for New Jersey and a former President of the New Jersey Public Health Association (NJPHA) as still serves on the Executive Board. He has a Ph.D. in microbiology and an M.S. in Health Sciences and has been a pharmaceutical vice president and a college dean and has spoken all over the world on infectious diseases. He has recently been honored by the New Jersey Senate and General Assembly for his work helping to fight the COVID-19 pandemic by helping many colleges and universities place their courses online. He is currently working with NJPHA’s COVID-19 Vaccine Research Project to examine the role of social and cultural factors in vaccine decision-making.
Lorie Smith Goshin, RN, PhD, FAAN, is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Hunter College in the City University of New York. She received a Masters in Parent-Child Nursing from the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD and postdoctoral research scientist training at Columbia University. One of her first nursing jobs was taking care of children detained in a county jail. She now researches criminal-legal involvement as a social determinant of health, with a particular focus on women and minor children. She has studied the long-term mother and child effects of a prison nursery, nursing care of incarcerated pregnant people, parenting stress in women on probation and parole, and community alternatives to incarceration for women. She has received awards for this work from the American Public Health Association, Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses, the National March of Dimes, and the Foundation for New York State Nurses.
Dr. Kenya Harris is a Professor at the CUNY School of Professional Studies. She has been a nurse educator for 16 years. In addition to her nursing education experience, she has worked for several years as a staff nurse in a variety of medical settings, such as the Visiting Nurse Service, Mount Sinai Hospital, St. Barnabas Hospital, and the Medical Staffing Network. She earned an Associate Degree in Nursing from Bronx Community College, a BSN in Nursing from Hunter College, a Master’s degree in Nursing Education from New York University, and an EdD in Educational Administration, Leadership, and Technology from St. John’s University.
Jan Oosting Kaminsky, PhD, RN-BC is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at CUNY SPS and an experienced health educator with a focus in LGBTQ+ Health. Her clinical background is in pediatric intensive care and she completed her PhD at The Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. Her research interests include vulnerable populations of children in the healthcare system, including gender fluid and transgender children, children of incarcerated mothers, and children in an ICU setting. Her mission in life is to improve health care access and outcomes for all LGBTQ+ persons across the life span through improved provider education.
H. “Herukhuti” Sharif Williams, Ph.D., M.Ed is a cultural studies scholar, sexologist, systems theorist, cultural worker, and interdisciplinary sociocultural scientist whose work operates at the intersection of race, culture, sexuality, and spirituality. A practitioner of tai chi chuan, chi kung, hatha yoga, and pranayama, Dr. Herukhuti has taught wellness and embodied health practices for decades. He is a past recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health-funded graduate research assistantship that included training in sex research, HIV prevention research, and socio-clinical research methodology at the HIV Center for Clinical Behavioral Studies at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Herukhuti is also a human rights and social justice activist who has participated in the decolonization movement and intersectional politics for three decades.
