2024 COURAGE Cohort


Sophie Allende-Richter, MD, MPH 

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Boston Children's Hospital 

Velarie Ansu, PhD

Post Doctoral Fellow 

University of Miami



Regine Boutin, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine Temple University 


Rita T. Brookheart, PhD

Assistant Professor 

Washington University School of Medicine

Loneke Blackman Carr, PhD, RD

Assistant Professor

University of Connecticut

Kristal Brown, PhD, MSPH

Assistant Professor

Drexel University 

Alfonso Floyd Jr, PhD

Post Doctoral Fellow 

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Miguel Angel Lopez, PhD

Post Doctoral Fellow

 Center for Nutrition

Jacqueline Maya, MD

Instructor of Pediatrics Massachusetts General Hospital 

Harvard Medical School 

Ana Maria Mora-Wrybeck, PhD 

Assistant Researcher

University of California Berkeley 


Bunmi Ogungbe, PhD, MPH, RN  

 Assistant Professor 

 John's Hopkins University School of Nursing

Ruth-Alma Turkson-Ocran, PhD

Instructor of Medicine 

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School

Stephanie Waldrop, MD

Research Fellow

University of Colorado School of Medicine Anschutz Medical Campus

Astrid Zamora, PhD

Post Doctoral Fellow 

Stanford University School of Medicine