Honoring the Life of Althea Alexander
Carrying on the Work of a Pioneering Trojan
When Althea Alexander first joined the Keck faculty in 1968, there was only one Black and one Latino student enrolled in the medical school at USC. She made it her mission to increase the number of underrepresented students at the Keck School, and to help provide them with the support and mentorship they needed to ensure they graduated.
As the inaugural Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, Althea Alexander led Keck’s diversity work from 1969 to 2019. A one-woman team at the start, Alexander passionately strove to develop a diverse health care workforce. By recruiting, mentoring, and supporting hundreds of students from underrepresented communities, she advanced structural change and modeled for the Keck School how to build and support an inclusive campus.
Building Pathways for Future Medical Leaders
The Althea and Fredric Alexander Student Support Fund continues Dean Alexander’s important work by providing students the resources they need to excel without the financial and emotional burden of insurmountable debt.
By providing financial support for research, professional development, and community service opportunities, the Althea and Fredric Alexander Student Support Fund empowers students traditionally underrepresented in medicine to develop into tomorrow’s health care leaders.
In lieu of flowers, the Alexander family invites all those Althea helped to continue her legacy of uplifting tomorrow’s health care leaders by contributing to the Althea and Frederic Alexander Student Support Fund at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Be the first person to donate to the cause!
Carrying on the Work of a Pioneering Trojan
When Althea Alexander first joined the Keck faculty in 1968, there was only one Black and one Latino student enrolled in the medical school at USC. She made it her mission to increase the number of underrepresented students at the Keck School, and to help provide them with the support and mentorship they needed to ensure they graduated.
As the inaugural Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, Althea Alexander led Keck’s diversity work from 1969 to 2019. A one-woman team at the start, Alexander passionately strove to develop a diverse health care workforce. By recruiting, mentoring, and supporting hundreds of students from underrepresented communities, she advanced structural change and modeled for the Keck School how to build and support an inclusive campus.
Building Pathways for Future Medical Leaders
The Althea and Fredric Alexander Student Support Fund continues Dean Alexander’s important work by providing students the resources they need to excel without the financial and emotional burden of insurmountable debt.
By providing financial support for research, professional development, and community service opportunities, the Althea and Fredric Alexander Student Support Fund empowers students traditionally underrepresented in medicine to develop into tomorrow’s health care leaders.
In lieu of flowers, the Alexander family invites all those Althea helped to continue her legacy of uplifting tomorrow’s health care leaders by contributing to the Althea and Frederic Alexander Student Support Fund at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Be the first person to donate to the cause!