PhD Student, Isis Bey has been accepted to the African American Leadership Development Program (LDP)

Isis Bey, LCSW, CCTP II, TTS, a 2nd year Doctoral Student whose research interests include tobacco usage health disparities, has been accepted to the African American Leadership Development Program (LDP), Quantum Leap Cohort 4. Quantum Leap is a six-week virtual and in-person professional development program in Oakland, CA, led by the leaders of the AATCL. AATCL seeks to support the development of 8-12 national leaders to work within their spheres of influence to engage, mobilize, and integrate our national tobacco control agenda. Isis will be privileged to work closely with leaders and researchers on tobacco and health disparities.

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN TOBACCO CONTROL LEADERSHIP COUNCIL, is our country’s leading public health education and advocacy organization is taking on Big Tobacco to save Black lives. Formed in 2008, the mission of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council (AATCLC) is to inform and influence the direction of tobacco control as it affects the lives of African American and African Immigrant communities. The AATCLC works at the intersection of social injustice and public health policy. Working with health jurisdictions, elected officials, community-based organizations, tobacco researchers, activists, faith-based communities, and the media, the AATCLC plays a key role in elevating the once obscure issue of regulating the sale of menthol and flavored tobacco products to one of national concern and action.