Imari Z. Smith completed her Ph.D in Public Policy and Sociology at Duke University. Through her work with the Cook Center, Imari continues her work in the intersections of gender, race, class, and health inequities.
Imari holds a Master of Public Health in Health Behavior from the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University in women’s studies with a minor in chemistry, and was the first in the history of the Women’s Studies department (now Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies) to graduate with Highest Distinction for her honors thesis titled Black Femininity through the White Speculum
