Dr. Maretha Roberts worked in biological research on the East Coast for many years before discovering her passion for teaching. “I realized I don’t want to spend my life…isolated in a lab doing research,” she said. “So, I decided to try teaching and found that I enjoy it very much.” Today, she’s a biology professor...

Dr. Megan Craig was a practicing dentist before finding her way to City Colleges. She started at Kennedy-King College and then moved to Malcolm X College to work in the Dental Hygiene Clinic as the supervising dentist. That’s when a full-time teaching position opened up, and, having gotten to know many of the students in...

From leading swim lessons at age 16 to serving as an anatomy and physiology professor at Olive-Harvey College today, teaching has always come naturally to Dr. Jacqueline Witherspoon. Even despite having taught an estimated 1,500 City Colleges students throughout her career, she still makes an effort to get to know every student and is proud...