G. Rumay Alexander, Ed.D., RN, FAAN, is the American Nurses Association senior equity advisor. She is also a professor in the School of Nursing, the assistant dean of relational excellence at the Adams School of Dentistry and formerly the associate vice-chancellor for diversity and inclusion/chief diversity officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
At the end of 2019, she completed her presidency of the National League for Nursing, the national voice for nursing education, which has over 40,000 nurse educators and 1,200 schools of nursing. In February of 2021, she became the American Nurses Association’s scholar-in-residence and advises the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing, which she continues do to this day. The North Carolina Nurses Association inducted her in September of 2025 into their Hall of Fame, and a month later, she was recognized with the distinction of being one of North Carolina’s Great 100 Nurses.
Additionally, Dr. Alexander is a board member of the Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit watchdog organization that serves as a voice for health care consumers and purchasers and the nation’s premier advocate of transparency in health care.
Included in her nursing career are appointments to several transformative healthcare initiatives addressing diversity, equity and inclusion, including the Commission of Workforce for Hospitals and Health Systems of the American Hospital Association, the Tri-Council of Nursing, and the National Quality Forum’s steering committee, which developed the first national voluntary consensus standards for nursing-sensitive care.
Dr. Alexander is a first-generation college graduate and holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville, a Master of Science in Nursing/Family Nurse Practitioner Program from Vanderbilt University and a Doctorate in Education, Administration and Supervision from Tennessee State University-Nashville.