Dr. Cheryl Woods Giscombé, PhD, PMHNP-BC is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a board certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner.  Dr. Giscombé’s program of research focuses on understanding and reducing stress-related health disparities. Her research incorporates sociohistorical and biopsychosocial perspectives to investigate how stress and coping strategies contribute to psychological and physical health outcomes.

Dr. Artemesia Stanberry is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at North Carolina Central University. She has worked for several members of Congress, including as a congressional aide for Dr. Glen Browder. Dr. Stanberry co-authored a study and book titled, “Stealth Reconstruction: The Untold Story of Southern Politics and History.”
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Dr. Huberta Jackson-Lowman is an Associate Professor of Clinical-Community Psychology at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University.  Her research interests are in the following areas: using African proverbs as a socialization tool with African American children and the use of proverbs as a tool for value transmission among African American elders; the relationship between cultural identity, spiritual orientation, and the mental health and psychological functioning of African American women; and factors impacting Black male-female relationships.                                                                                              

Dr. Makeba Parramore Wilbourn received her B.A. and M.A. in Psychology from California State University, Fullerton and completed her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology at Cornell University in 2008. Dr. Wilbourn is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Her program of research investigates the factors that influence and facilitate children’s language development. One line of this research explores how particular socio-cultural factors (e.g., race, socioeconomic status, home environments, mother-child interactions, bilingualism) impact children’s language learning at different stages of development. The primary goal of this research is to assess the degree to which various factors contribute to the disparities often found in language and reading skills of children and adults from different racial and socioeconomic groups.

Dr. Andrea Hussong is a Professor of Psychology and Director, Center for Developmental Science. Dr. Hussong’s research examines the development of substance use behaviors, particularly in high-risk youth. Emphases include the role of emotions and internalizing symptoms in the development and escalation of substance use; developmental pathways leading to substance involvement and disorder; and processes underlying risk and resilience in children of alcoholic parents. She also is beginning work on a preventive intervention program for young children living with a substance abusing parent and their families.