Carlotta M. Arthur

Program Officer and Director, MMUF

Carlotta M. Arthur serves as Director of the MMUF Program and Program Officer in the Liberal Arts Colleges Program, and has responsibility for the Foundation's work with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Diversity Initiatives.  

Ms. Arthur came to the Foundation from Smith College, where she held a postdoctoral position in the Departments of Afro-American Studies and Psychology.  Prior to her appointment at Smith, she was an assistant professor at Meharry Medical College, an HBCU in Nashville, Tennessee.  Ms. Arthur was also a member of the inaugural cohort of the W.K. Kellogg Scholars in Minority Health Disparities at the Harvard School of Public Health, and co-coordinated Harvard University’s first symposium on minority health disparities. 

Ms. Arthur holds a PhD in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is a psychologist licensed in the state of New York. She received a BS in Metallurgical Engineering from Purdue University, and prior to attending graduate school in psychology, she worked for a decade as an engineer and administrator.  As a psychologist, she has special competence in the area of psychological stress.  Her research interests and publications center on health psychology—relationships between mental and physical health—among women and underserved populations, mental health in the African Diaspora, and cultural competence in mental health.