M. Lisa McGee, M.Ed., Ed. D© has been the Director of the State of Tennessee-funded, Legislative Appropriated MMC HBCU Wellness Project at Meharry Medical College since 2006. Under her direction, this project has trained more than 500 students and developed more than 600 community partnerships both state and nationally. She has acquired programming experience spanning 30 years that included management and execution of NHBLI funding as the Principal Investigator of the Patient Services Core of the Cincinnati (Ohio) Children’s Hospital Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center. Her other management experiences comes from managing the NIH/National Institute of Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism funded Meharry Alcohol Research Collaborative (MARC), a collaboration between the MMC Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the Medical College of Wisconsin School of Social Work. Other experiences that she acquired was as the Education Coordinator with the MMC Sickle Cell Center of the MMC Department of Internal Medicine and the School of Medicine’s Summer Bachelor of Science/Medical Doctor Program (BS/MD) as an Instructor in the Behavioral Science Component. She is committed to providing strategic support and innovation to undergraduate collegians interested in achieving academic and professional goals. “As the work of developing students for health careers continues, students should understand fully how their community interventions enrich themselves and the communities they live. Therefore, it is critically necessary to include emotional intelligence (EI) strategies in this work to have as a baseline for their evolvement-I believe in discovering the answer to the age old question of “Who Am I” as part of their development and inevitable success as wholly complete individuals”. Mrs. McGee is completing dissertation research work in higher education and organizational systems focused on student engagement health disparity interventions and graduation persistence among four HBCUs from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. All of these experiences have supported her development and stimulated an interest in health disparity reduction and student education for increased workforce diversity. She is also the founder of Life Coaching Encounters and co-founder of Community Leadership Institute for Health Equity. She has co-authored several publications that include “Health Disparity Intervention through Minority Collegiate Service Learning” (Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved February 2015) and “Emotional Intelligence: A Vital Skill For Faculty At Minority Academic Health Centers” March 2017. Her recognitions include “Above and Beyond” Award for Mentoring and Advising Students and “Excellence In Public Health”. She was recently recognized as a Tennessee Black History Maker for her work with college students at HBCUs. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., 100 Black Women of Middle Tennessee, Women In Higher Education and serves on several nonprofit boards in Middle Tennessee. She is a native of Nashville Tennessee but lived in Cincinnati, Ohio for more than 16 years. She is a wife to Michael and mother to Jianne and Alex McDonald.