2007

Cheryl Washington is a television and radio personality, magazine columnist, public speaker, media coach, voice-over artist, website developer, production company owner, educator and community service activist. She is a graduate of Rutgers University with a B.A. in Mass Communications and Classical Music.  She has over twenty years of hosting, anchoring, reporting, producing, writing and editing …

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Wally Torian is currently the assistant dean for Student Development for the Educational Opportunity Fund Program (EOF) in the School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey. His career at Rutgers began in 1976 as counselor with the Rutgers College EOF Program. After a series of promotions Mr. Torian became the …

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Aliya S. King was born and raised in East Orange, New Jersey. She is a 1994 graduate of Rutgers University with a B.A. in Africana Studies and certification in Secondary Education from the Rutgers Graduate School of Education.  After teaching United States History and African-American History at Clifford Scott High School for several years, Ms. …

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Colonel Janmichael S. Graine is a 1980 distinguished military graduate of Rutgers University. He received a BA in Biology with a minor in Africana Studies and received a 3-year ROTC scholarship. He became a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity at Rutgers and played on the Rutgers Soccer Team. Commissioned as a Chemical Corp Officer, …

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The first black man to graduate from the College of Engineering in 1943, Walter Gilbert Alexander II was a scholar and a leader. Walter G. Alexander II, named after his great uncle, was born in Petersburg, VA in 1922 into a family of doctors and dentists. He and his family later moved to Orange, NJ …

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