Tammara Sutton (She/Her)

Matthew Goins (BBA ’02, MA ’06, MBA ’09) is changing the conversation of what it means for families of color to raise the next generation of cultured, intelligent, and empowered youth who can achieve anything they set out to do. And he’s using jigsaw puzzles to make it happen. 

The founder of Puzzle Huddle and his wife, Marnel Niles Goins (MA ’03, PhD ’07), noticed a lack of diversity and inspirational career images represented among the characters of children’s products. “I wanted to expose my...

When to build on a candidate's positive attributes and when to let them go.

Britney Wilson (BA ’12), an associate professor of law and director of the Civil Rights and Disability Justice Clinic at  New York Law School, is a pioneer for people with multi-marginalized identities.

As a Black woman with cerebral palsy, Wilson observed and experienced the gaps in society, especially in institutional systems lacking inclusion of people of color with disabilities. Ironically, one of the most prominent places where Wilson observed this void was in the civil rights and racial...

During her Howard new student orientation, Sahar Kassem (PharmD ’16) was asked what branch of pharmacy she wanted to pursue. She raised her hand high, as she knew without a doubt that one day she would own and manage an independent pharmacy. But little did she know that only six years later she would be the successor of the 110-year-old Morgan’s Pharmacy in Georgetown, the second oldest pharmacy in the nation’s capital. 

Kassem’s career began when she was the caretaker of her ill grandmother. “...