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.