Vice President for Community, Equity, and Diversity University of Rhode Island | Kingston, Rhode Island We are pleased to announce the appointment of Markeisha Miner as the new vice president for community, equity, and diversity of the University of Rhode Island, starting in January 2024.An accomplished student services leader and experienced litigator, Miner served as senior associate dean for student services and dean of students at Cornell University Law School, where she advised on all aspects of the student experience and supervised the school’s career and academic support offices. Previously, Miner served as assistant dean of career services and outreach at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, overseeing career planning and professional development. Prior to that, she practiced as a commercial litigator in Dickinson Wright PLLC’s Detroit office, where she was an inaugural member of the firm’s diversity committee and co-authored the firm’s diversity mission statement. She also clerked for the Honorable Anna Diggs Taylor of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.Miner earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, from Mount Holyoke College, where she currently serves on the Board of Trustees and on the board’s diversity, equity, and inclusion task force. She earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School. She was executive editor of the Michigan Journal of Race and Law, placement chair of the Black Law Student Alliance, and a student attorney in Michigan’s Legal Assistance for Urban Communities Clinic, where she assisted community development organizations in Detroit with transactional legal needs. She also completed an externship at the Commission on Gender Equality in Durban, South Africa.The full press release is linked here.Donna Cramer led this search with Angelo Alexander and Ryan Smillie.