Meet Naima Hall

Naima Hall (she/her/hers) comes to us from Rutgers University–Camden, where she served as Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for the campus. Naima is an experienced DEI practitioner and over the past 16 years, she has focused her professional higher education career around implementing innovative and sustainable DEI efforts targeted towards allyship, competency development and capacity building. Naima has created DEI initiatives adopted by each of the institutions that she has served to help foster and increase a campus community sense of belonging through inclusive culture and change management efforts. Naima has been able to successfully utilize her ability to strategize and operationalize DEIB by benchmarking proven best practices that work in higher education.

Prior to joining Rutgers University–Camden, Naima served as the Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Temple, where she founded the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with the Fox School of Business. During her tenure at the University of Delaware, she was appointed Assistant Dean of Graduate Services under the direction of the Provost, where she oversaw graduate professional development and DEI programming for students. In addition to Naima's Assistant Dean appointment, she has held leadership roles overseeing a diverse portfolio of DEIB efforts at the University of Delaware and Drexel University. Naima's efforts have been recognized awarding her the President's Employee Excellence Award (Rutgers University), Impact and Innovation Award (Temple University) and the Student Engagement Award (University of Delaware). 

Naima is a certified diversity professional (CDP) and is currently in the final stages of dissertation for an Ed.D. at Temple University. Her research focuses on the influence of higher education systems and structures that inform DEI in policy and practice. Naima also holds a MS in Human Resource Development from Drexel University.

Naima can be reached at hallna@rowan.edu.