About Cheryl johnson-Odim

Dr. Johnson-Odim is an activist and educator. She was raised in New York City, earned a bachelor's degree in history from Youngstown State University, and a PhD in history from Northwestern University. She served as assistant director of the African Studies program at Northwestern, became the first woman and first African American to chair the history department at Loyola University Chicago, and was the first dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Columbia College Chicago. She went on to serve as Provost at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, has since retired, and continues her activism for several causes.