This fall, the Bioethics Department of the Lewis School of Health Science launched its new undergraduate bioethics minor at Clarkson. A National Endowment for the Humanities Connections grant supported the development of the minor and is sponsoring a speaker series to celebrate. The next speaker in the fall series, Keisha S. Ray, PhD will present a talk entitled, “Black Bioethics and the Narrative of Health Equity.” Professor Keisha Ray received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Utah. She is currently a tenured Associate Professor and holds the John P. McGovern, MD Professorship of Oslerian Medicine at the McGovern Center for Humanities & Ethics at UT Health Houston, where she also serves as the Director of the Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration. Most of Dr. Ray’s work focuses on the effects of institutional racism on Black people’s health, highlighting Black people’s own stories in Black health discourse, and the sociopolitical implications of biomedical enhancement for marginalized populations. Her work uniquely prioritizes linguistic justice as a matter of access and commitmentto plubic scholarship. Dr. Ray serves as an associate editor for the American Journal of Bioethics and media editor for itsblog site, “Bioethics Today,” to which she is also a regular contributor. She has contributed to top clinical, bioethics, and medical humanities journals. And based on her expertise, Dr. Ray is also frequently called upon as a bioethics expert for popular news sources. Lastly, Dr. Ray is the author of the book Black Health: The Social, Political, and Cultural Determinants of Black People’s Health with Oxford University Press.