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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those lectures became a fundamental first step into his career in higher education, and in 2008, he became special assistant to the director of the TRIO programs at GSU, a series of federally funded programs that assist low-income, first-generation, or otherwise minoritized students attend and graduate college. Dr. Dereck J. Rovaris, Sr.,

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Health Equity, Working to Identify Effective Policy Interventions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since 2009, she’s been engaged in research relating to health services and health equity, she said. “My She said she chose to take on the USC appointment as her first faculty position and to continue in academia, in part, because she wanted to help uplift others. “I She has spent the better part of 14 years in this field.

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