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Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

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About Helene D. Gayle

Helene D. Gayle (born August 16, 1955) is an American physician, and academic and non-profit administrator. She has been president of Spelman College since 2023. She formerly was CEO of the Chicago Community Trust, one of the nation's leading community foundations. Earlier in her career she was the director of international humanitarian organization CARE, and spent much of her career in the field of public health research in epidemiology at the CDC.