Diversity Leadership Council 3rd Annual Diversity Conference
Wednesday, November 1, 2006 / 8:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
Homewood Campus

Keynote Speakers

Gwendolyn Boyd has been a member of the Diversity Leadership Council since its inception in 1997, and was appointed as Chair by President Brody in September 2003. Ms. Boyd is an engineer and Assistant for Development Programs at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.

Ms. Boyd graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. degree in Mathematics and a double minor in Physics and Music from Alabama State University. Following this achievement, she received an M.S. degree in Mathematical Engineering from Yale University. Ms. Boyd currently serves on the Advisory Council of the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Physical Science for Tuskegee University; is a member of the Society of Women Engineers and the Metropolitan Area Network of Minority Women in Science; and is a mentor with the Meyerhoff Scholarship Program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, a program which graduates the highest number of minority scholars in mathematics, science, engineering, and technology.

Martha Hill, a Johns Hopkins faculty member since 1980, became dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in July 2002 after a year as interim dean.

Hill is internationally known for developing and testing strategies to improve hypertension care and control among urban, underserved African-Americans, particularly young men. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and was the first non-physician to serve as president of the American Heart Association.

At Johns Hopkins, she became director of the Center for Nursing Research in 1994. She has served as a member and chair of the university-wide Committee for the 21st Century and as co-chair of the Urban Health Council, a joint Hopkins-community committee whose work led to the establishment of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. She holds joint faculty appointments in both the School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Hill earned a diploma from the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in 1964 and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in 1966 from what is now the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education. She earned a Master's in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977 and a Doctorate in Behavioral Sciences in 1986 from what is now the Bloomberg School of Public Health.