Travis Brown
Liaison to Black Men's Group
Travis Brown, PhD, liaison to the Black Men's Group, is the Director of The Center for STEM Diversity at Tufts University, which he established in the fall of 2008. He was hired to help Tufts build a supportive network of students, faculty, and staff that would advise and mentor underrepresented students in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. Travis pursued biology as an undergraduate at Morehouse College, and went on to continue animal behavioral research at UC Berkeley. At Berkeley he worked with the successful Biology Scholars Program, and there he found his true calling in life. He is committed to ensuring that all students, particularly first-generation college goers and underrepresented minority students are able to succeed in their chosen field of study, and has been developing programming since his hire to do just that. The Center for STEM Diversity houses several retention programs, one in particular being a summer bridge program for incoming engineers. BEST (Bridge to Engineering Success at Tufts) has shown great promise so far, and there are plans to expand the size and reach of the program. Travis also advises graduate students, and works with faculty and staff on various diversity-related projects.

Domonique Johnson
Co-facilitator of Black Women's Collective
Domonique Johnson was born and raised in Los Angeles, Ca. She graduated from Tufts in 2010, with a degree in Child Development and American Studies. She held a number of positions on various boards in the Africana Community and the Tufts Community at large. Through the different experiences at Tufts, she was even able to make a film about life as an African American undergraduate at Tufts. During Domonique's time here, she decided to pursue her Masters in Social Work at Boston College, where she will finish in 2012.

Nandi Bynoe
Co-facilitator of Black Women's Collective
Nandi Bynoe was raised in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the United States to attend Tufts University. She graduated in 2009 with her B.A. in International Relations with a concentration in a regional and comparative analysis of East and South East Asia. During her time at Tufts, she was very involved in languages and she was fortunate enough to study the Japanese language in Tokyo, Japan during her semester abroad. She also became very involved in the musical arts and was a member of both the University Chorale and the Tufts Third Day Gospel Choir. Being at Tufts really shaped the person she is by allowing her to broaden her horizons and have experiences that were previously out of reach. She enjoyed her experience at Tufts so much that after graduation she began working as a Student Services Representative and is now the manager of Student Services.

Alexandra Smith
Graduate Assistant
Alexandra V. Smith is a communications professional working toward her MA in communication management at Emerson College in Boston. She earned her BA from Framingham State University, where she studied communication arts and journalism. Alex is currently concentrating her studies on external/public affairs.

Alex came to Tufts Africana Center to apply her communications skillset to higher education administration and program development and to learn about student affairs, diversity inclusion, and intercultural communication.

She has performed work in a variety of functions including news reporting, web content writing and development, marketing communications, and nonprofit organization administration.