Meet Dr. Naima Hall
Dr. Naima Hall (she/her/hers) comes to us from Rutgers University–Camden, where she served as Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the campus. An experienced DEI practitioner, she has focused the past 16 years of her professional higher education career around implementing innovative and sustainable DEI efforts targeted towards allyship, competency development, and capacity building. Hall has created DEI initiatives adopted by each of the institutions that she has served to help foster and increase a campus community sense of belonging through inclusive culture and change management efforts. She has been able to successfully utilize her ability to strategize and operationalize Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) by benchmarking proven best practices that work in higher education.
Prior to joining Rutgers University–Camden, Hall served as the Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Temple, where she founded the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with the Fox School of Business. During her tenure at the University of Delaware, she was appointed Assistant Dean of Graduate Services under the direction of the Provost, where she oversaw graduate professional development and DEI programming for students. In addition to her Assistant Dean appointment, she has held leadership roles overseeing a diverse portfolio of DEIB efforts at the University of Delaware and Drexel University. Hall's efforts have been recognized awarding her the President's Employee Excellence Award (Rutgers University), Impact and Innovation Award (Temple University) and the Student Engagement Award (University of Delaware).
Hall is a certified diversity professional (CDP) and her research focuses on the influence of higher education systems and structures that inform belonging in policy and practice. Hall holds an EdD in Higher Education Administration from Temple University and an MS in Human Resource Development from Drexel University.
Dr. Naima Hall can be reached at hallna@rowan.edu.