G. Rumay Alexander, EdD, RN, FAAN
Senior Equity Advisor
American Nurses Association
Member of CCNC, Inc. Board
G. Rumay Alexander, EdD, RN, FAAN, is the American Nurses Association Senior Equity Advisor. She also is a professor in the School of Nursing, Assistant Dean of Relational Excellence at the Adams School of Dentistry and formerly the Associate Vice-Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion/ Chief Diversity Officer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the end of 2019, she completed her presidency of the National League for Nursing, the national voice for nursing education which has over 40,000 nurse educators and 1200 schools of nursing.
In February of 2021, she became the American Nurses Association’s Scholar-In-Residence and advises the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing. She was key in the shaping of ANA’s New Nursing Leadership Scope and Standard of Practice released in May 2024. Additionally, Dr. Alexander is a board member of The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit watchdog organization that serves as a voice for health care consumers and purchasers and the nation’s premier advocate of transparency in health care.
Included in her nursing career are appointments to several transformative healthcare initiatives addressing diversity, equity and inclusion including the Commission of Workforce for Hospitals and Health Systems of the American Hospital Association the Tri-Council of Nursing, and the National Quality Forum’s steering committee which developed the first national voluntary consensus standards for nursing-sensitive care.
Dr. Alexander is a first-generation college graduate and holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, a Master of Science in Nursing/Family Nurse Practitioner Program from Vanderbilt University and a Doctorate in Education, Administration and Supervision from Tennessee State University-Nashville.
Dr. Alexander became a CCNC Board of Manager in July 2024.