Alumni

Many of our faculty and alumni are multicultural and renowned globally in their disciplines and specializations. They continue to make a difference in policy making decisions in most major fields in the arts and humanities, biological and life sciences, engineering and life sciences, and social sciences.

Giving Opportunities

Fundraising priorities:

• Student Scholarships
• Preparing Future Faculty Program
• Speakers Bureau
• Certificate Programs

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Renowned Alumni

Howard alumni are among the nation’s highest achieving in their fields. 

Education

• Several college presidents;
• Dean of The Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Duke University, Paula D. McClain

Engineering

• Aerospace Engineeer Aprille Ericsson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• CEO of Panovel Technology Moses Asom

Entertainment

• Debbie Allen;
• Chaswick Bosman;
• Sean Combs;
• Taraji P. Henson;
• Opera singer Jessye Norman
• Phylicia Rashad; and
• Frederika Whitfield.

Law

• late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall;

Medicine

• renowned surgeon and teacher Lasalle D. Leffall, Jr.;
• noted transplant surgeon Clive Callendar;
• Howard president/surgeon, Wayne A.I. Frederick, and many others.

Politics and Social Justice

• former Atlanta Mayor, U.N. Ambassador, and Civil Rights leader Andrew Young;
• former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin;
• former New York Mayor David Dinkins; 
• former Virginia governor Douglas Wilder;
• current Montgomery County Executive and former Howard law professor Isiah Leggett;
• former Washington D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty;
• Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed; 
• former Senator Edward Brooke; and
• Senator-Elect, California and first black person elected to represent the state of California in the U.S. Senate Kamala Harris.

Social Sciences

• Dean of The Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Duke University, Paula D. McClain