School of Leadership and Development
Sharon Gramby-Sobukwe, Ph.D.
Sharon Gramby-Sobukwe is the director of the MA in Organizational Leadership Program at Eastern University. She has served as a special assistant to the Managing Director and then Deputy Director of the Minority Business Enterprise Council of the city of Philadelphia. In her current role she is responsible for the academic quality of the SLD program and Eastern University’s institutional partnerships with World Vision and Habitat for Humanity.
Contact Information:
Phone: 610-225-5728
Fax: 484-581-1276
Email: sgrambys@eastern.edu
EDUCATION
- PH.D. Temple University (Political Science)
- M.A. University of Pennsylvania
- Certificate in Public Policy and Management, Rand Graduate Institute
- B.A. Duke University (Public Policy)
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Who Pays Rules: How Development Assistance Undermines Democracy in Africa
- Everything in Common? Dynamic Race, Class and Religious Influences on the Politics of Contemporary African-American Churches
- Africa and U.S. Foreign Policy: Contributions of the Diaspora to Democratic African Leadership, Journal of Black Studies
- Race, Class and Community Development: The Role of the African American Church in Civil Society, Black and Latina/o Politics: Issues in Political Development in the United States
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND SERVICE
- Camden Capacity Building Project, Senator Walter Rand Insititute for Public Affairs
- Advisory Board, Bright Lights Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
- Board of Directors First Cornithian Community Center, Philadelphia, PA
- Chairperson Board of Directors Mwamba Ministries, Kitale Kenya, West AFrica and Philadelphia, PA
- Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees, Neumann College
- Committee for the Advancement of Pan-Africanism, Executive Committee Member and co-chair of the Women's Sections, United States Representative, New York, NY
- Faculty Senator, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey
- African Association of Political Science
- American Association of Public Administrators
- African Studies Association
- American Association of University Women
- National Conference of Black Political Scientists
