Emily Tancredi-Brice Agbenyega is a University Lecturer at the Albert Dorman Honors College at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) where she develops and teaches interdisciplinary service-learning courses. As affiliated faculty with the Wilmette Institute, Agbenyega has co-designed and co-taught courses on the promotion of race unity in America, with an emphasis on preparing students to contribute to the discourse on eliminating racial prejudice in the social spaces they occupy.

Agbenyega’s research concentrates on promoting broadened participation and retention among underrepresented women in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM). She has specifically investigated how BIPOC women leverage their sociocultural identity as assets throughout their careers, particularly in service to their communities.

In both her research and her teaching, Agbenyega is committed to exploring various strategies to address the most vital and challenging issue of racial prejudice through a framework for action that centers principles including protagonism, faith in the capacity of every individual, and the coherence of our material and spiritual nature.