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Loren Cobb, C’2019, a student at Meharry Medical College, was featured on “The Doctors” to discuss her winning the Bloomberg Philanthropies Scholarship in the amount of $100,000. She also discussed the need for more African American physicians in America.
in Bria Samone Henderson, C’2015, is returning in a recurring role in the upcoming fourth season of “The Good Doctor” as part of a major storyline that will span the entire season of the ABC medical drama. Tiffany Brown, Ph.D., C’2001, was featured in “These Designers Are Making Their New York Fashion Week Debuts in the Middle of a Pandemic” on fashionista.com. Brown had a career in public policy before launching Tiffany Brown Designs in 2008 and still owns a government consulting business.
MEMORIAM
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Susie Jones Drayton Died: January 15, 2021 Services: January 23, 2021, New Bethel Baptist Church, Winston Salem, North Carolina
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Carolyn Taylor Thomas Died: March 26, 2021 Services: Friday, April 2, 2021, Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Georgia
1945 Adriane Keepler, C’89, has created a micromini short film, “Blind Faith: Facing the shadow to find the light.” Kristilyn Whigham Lambert, C’2007, was recently listed in the 2020 Forty Under 40 of the Public Relations Society of America Georgia. Tracey Hughes Royal, C’90, was featured in the Nashville Public Television documentary, Facing North: Jefferson Street, discussing the legacy of her great-great grandfather, Richard Harris — a former slave who bought his freedom, opened several businesses and became Fisk University’s first Black trustee. Jakita Thomas Owensby, C’99, co-founder of Pharaoh’s Conclave, was a recipient of $100,000 in nondilutive capital from the Google Black Founders Fund. Pharaoh’s Conclave prepares youth for eSports careers. The company was featured in the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
Kornisha McGill Brown, C’98, has been elected the 27th national president of Jack and Jill of America.
Angela Baskerville, C’87, accepted the 2020 Women in Technology Award on behalf of Connected World Magazine. Shaundra Walker, C’98, was in The New York Times’ “Welcome to Homecoming,” a feature and video highlighting HBCU homecomings. She shared memories of homecoming, noting one in particular with her mother, a Spelman alumna, during her Golden Girl milestone.
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SPELMAN MESSENGER
1946
Christine W. Robinzine Died: June 6, 2021 Services: June 12, 2021, Rockdale Chapel, Conyers, Georgia
1947
Carolyn O. Smith Died: December 14, 2020 Services: December 28, 2020, A.A. Rayner & Sons, Chicago
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Emma Grace Thurston Died: January 19, 2021 Services: January 22, 2021, Green Pastures Funeral Home, Powder Springs, Georgia
1950
Virginia Haywood-Smith Died: November 16, 2020 Services: November 21, 2020, The House of Day Funeral Services Chapel, Toledo, Ohio
1951
Savannah Potter-Miller, C’68, a founding member of the National Bar Association Women’s Division, was elected as a delegate-atlarge for the American Bar Association House of Delegates.
Karin Gist, C’93, discussed her career as a film and television writer, producer and showrunner during the 2020 BronzeLens Film Festival. She recently served as showrunner and executive producer of ABC’s “Mixed-ish,” for which she earned a 2020 NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series.
Marian Scott Died: August 30, 2020 Services: September 10, 2020, Lincoln Cemetery, Atlanta
Claudette C. Cureton Died: August 16, 2020 Services: Friday, August 28, 2020, Reedy River Missionary Baptist Church, Greenville, South Carolina Brittany Rhodes, C’2011, a mathematician turned tech founder, created Black Girl MATHgic. The goal of the monthly subscription box service is to increase math confidence and decrease math anxiety in girls who are performing on a thirdto eighth-grade math skill level. Rhodes was featured in Forbes in an article titled “Spelman Alumna: Meet the Mathematician Turned Startup Founder Who’s Helping Black Girls Build Their Confidence In Math.”
1952
Ermalene Coffey Rodrigues Died: July 13, 2020 Services: July 20, 2020, Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis
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Patricia C. Greer Died: February 7, 2021 Celestine Louise Bray Bottoms, C’60 Died: December 12, 2020 Services: December 18, 2020, Big Bethel AME Church, Atlanta
