New Bison Appointments Keith L. Alexander, Howard
and Family Medicine within the College of Medicine. Copeland is
alumnus and Pulitzer Prize-winning
fellowship-trained in adolescent
crime and courts reporter for The
medicine and completed her
Washington Post, has been named The Hilltop’s new technical editorial adviser. He has also worked as an adjunct journalism professor at various Washington-area colleges, including Howard University, the University of Maryland and Trinity College. He is a three-time winner of the National Association of Black Journalists’ annual writing awards, finalist for the 2002 Livingston Awards, and contributor to the team at The Post for its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage
residency in family medicine in Chicago. Most recently, Copeland served as director of adolescent medicine at Morris Heights Health Center in the Bronx, New York, where she was responsible for the clinical and programmatic aspects of the Young Adult and Adolescent Health Unit.
Cynthia Evers, Ed.D, has been named vice
of the Virginia Tech mass shooting.
president of student affairs. Evers has
Kenneth Anderson, Ph.D., is the new
senior leadership positions at Howard
progressively served in responsible University, including, most recently,
associate provost for undergraduate studies in the
interim vice president of student affairs
Office of the Provost. As a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education, Anderson has served in roles of increasing responsibility, including most recently as associate dean of research and sponsored programs in the School of Education.
and dean of students. Evers provides more than 20 years of higher education experience. Previously, she was appointed to serve on several committees instituted by the University System of Georgia’s vice chancellor, including Complete College Georgia, Guided Pathways and Hispanic Latino College Completion
Anderson is also a former middle school teacher.
Policy.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, award-winning author and
Nikole Hannah-Jones joins the faculty of the
journalist, joins as faculty member in the flagship College of Arts and Sciences as the Sterling Brown Chair in the Department of English. Coates previously attended Howard and is author of “Between the World and Me,” a New York Times #1 bestselling novel and winner of the National Book Award.
Cathy Hughes School of Communications, filling the newly created Knight Chair in Race and Journalism. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist will also found the Center for Journalism and Democracy, which will focus on training and supporting aspiring journalists in acquiring the investigative skills and historical and analytical expertise needed to cover the crisis our
Ebony Rose Copeland, M.D., MPH, is the new director of the Howard University Student Health Center and assistant professor in the Department of Community
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democracy is facing. She is the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism. Hannah-Jones is the creator of The New York Times’ 1619 Project, an examination of the repercussions of the slave trade.
