About Us
The “Level The Playing Field” team was expressly chosen to provide a wide array of student interests and experiences. The team consists of advisors who work closely with each student cohort, as well as an overall staff that heads operations and organizational concerns.
The Team
These staff members work full-time to better serve all the students and to make the program stronger and more impactful each day.
Nehemiah Stewart, President & Founder
Wendy Krieg, Program Coordinator
2023-2024 Mentors
Our advisors come from diverse backgrounds, skill sets, and careers. However, they are united in their dedication to pay their successes forward by mentoring the coming generations to find their own success whatever that may look like.
Micheal (Mike) Reed
Jennica Kelm
Oluwatimilehin (Timi) Oluwajire
Advisory Board
The Level the Playing Field staff consists of a dedicated team of students and faculty. Alongside organizational concerns and structure, each member of the LTPF staff seeks to be a resource to guide each student towards success.
Nehemiah Stewart
Gretchen Bellamy
John Bamforth
Ralph House
Bernard Bell
Corporate Advisory Board:
Our Corporate Advisory Board is made up of very qualified and skilled individuals within the Pharmacy and Tech world.
William Heath, Group VP Medicines Innovation Hub at Eli Lilly & Co.
Stephanie Barrett, Distinguished Scientist at Merck
Stephanie Urbin, Director at Procter and Gamble
Kevin Barnett, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at SciVida
Dawn Mason, Global External Innovation & Library Information Services Manager at Eastman
Academic Advisory Board
Our Academic Advisory Board is made up of very qualified and skilled individuals from various Universities across the East Coast.
Sean Kimbro, Professor at Morehouse School of Medicine
Carla White, Associate Dean at UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy
David Remington, Associate Professor Emeritus at UNCG
Felix (Phil) Castellano, Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Chair and Professor at NCSU
Our Past Student Cohorts
Level the Playing Field has extremely dedicated, driven, and intelligent students each year.
2022-2023
Clarisa Garcia
Elikem Des-Amekudi
Chyanne McKeller
Adelaide Owusu
Daniel Sartin
Aiden Pearson
Ann Safo
Kiara Fletcher
Ke’Von Lee
Ricardo Hernandez-Lopez
Marc Brown
Amber Frye
Karissa D. Forrester
2021-2022
Ashley Riddick
Jim Appiah
Valen Zhang
Arianna Delts
James Issa
Emmanuel Otoah-Gyasi
Travis Cromes
2020-2021
Jarvis Blanding
Alexis Campbell
Isaiah Crews-Davis
George Andrade- Muñoz
Samuel Okonkwo
De’Vion Porch
Bobby Sims
