Marybeth Gasman is a distinguished professor, and the associate dean for Research in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. She also serves as the executive director of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity & Justice and the executive director of the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. She is the author or editor of 33 books, including Educating a Diverse Nation (Harvard University Press, 2015 with Clif Conrad), Envisioning Black Colleges (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), Making Black Scientists (Harvard University Press, 2019 with Thai-Huy Nguyen), Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring (Princeton University, 2022), and her newest book HBCU: The Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024).