Khalia Jenkins Assistant Professor Department of Marketing

Degrees: PhD, MBA, BS
Bio: Khalia Jenkins is an Assistant Professor at American University’s Kogod School of Business. She received her Ph.D. from the Muma College of Business's School of Marketing and Innovation at the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on finding ways that marketing and technology can be combined to help businesses solve issues of inequity. She is currently working on a project assessing race and discrimination's effects on consumer shopping choices.

Before leaping into academia, Khalia worked in various marketing roles for Anthem BlueCross BlueShield, Abbott, Procter and Gamble, and her last position before transitioning as Director of Client Success at MDLIVE (now acquired by Cigna). Khalia holds an MBA from Clark Atlanta University and a dual bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati's Lindner Honors-Plus Program in Marketing and International Business.

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