Ebony McGee, scholar in STEM education and resilience, studies how racialized biases and marginalization impact graduate and career trajectories for high-achieving historically marginalized students. She has led groundbreaking work linking STEM educational experiences with racial trauma, showing the social, economic and health costs of racialized stereotypes. 

McGee founded the Racial Revolutionary and Inclusive Guidance for Health Throughout STEM (R-RIGHTS) a project that aims to dismantle systemic racism and other barriers and promote equitable representation in the STEM fields. She also published a book in 2020 titled Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation that proposes key reforms to STEM education. McGee’s proposed reforms fundamentally pivot away from current strategies that seek to modify students, faculty, or staff. Instead, she emphasizes the necessity of structural changes in our educational systems. McGee is currently working on her second book, which will present equity ethics as a key framework for transforming STEM to help reverse—rather than exacerbate—global climate change and thereby maintain human survival on the planet. 

McGee joined Johns Hopkins University as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in 2024 from Vanderbilt University. She is part of the Advancing Racial Equity in Health, Housing, and Education cluster.