Dr. Clarissa Myrick-Harris is currently Interim Executive Director of the UNCF Institute for Capacity Building (ICB), a unit of the United Negro College Fund that focuses on providing grants and technical support to the 38 private HBCUs that are UNCF institutions.   Dr. Myrick-Harris joined UNCF as the director of the Institute for Capacity Building’s Curriculum and Faculty Enhancement Program (CFEP) in October 2007.

Dr. Myrick-Harris was the founding director of the Morris Brown College/University of Minnesota Mellon Pipeline Program in International Studies in the early 2000s, and then became national director of the Global Issues Honors Consortium (2005-2008), a partnership between the University of Minnesota, Dillard University and Tougaloo College. Dr. Myrick-Harris’ administrative experience also includes her work in the mid-1990s as the co-founder of the African American Academy in Cincinnati, Ohio, the first African-Centered independent school (Pre-K-7th grade) chartered by the Ohio Department of Education.

Dr. Myrick-Harris’ research and writing focus on the history of leadership and institution building in African American communities, especially during the Civil Rights and Black Power eras.   She also has co-authored several African American history digital textbooks.

 

Dr. Clarissa Myrick-Harris, Vice President of One World Archives, has been an educator for almost thirty years. Dr. Myrick-Harris has held a variety of faculty and administrative positions at both HBCUs and large research institutions.  She has served on the faculties of University of Georgia, University of Cincinnati and Morris Brown College. In addition, she has taught at Emory University, Purdue University and Clark Atlanta University. More recently, she was a Distinguished Teaching and Research Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (2005-2008). The experienced administrator served as the chair of the African World Studies, History and World Languages Department at Morris Brown College (1998-2002).