Program Officer

Carlotta M. Arthur serves as Program Officer in the Liberal Arts Colleges Program and has responsibility for the Foundation's work with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and with Appalachian colleges.  

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 holds a Ph.D. 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 B.S. 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 management of stress.  Her research interests and publications center on the stigma of mental illness and on relations between mental and physical health, especially in underserved populations.