Antoine Richards
Senior Advisor, Institute for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Management
Antoine B. Richards serves as the Senior Advisor for the Institute for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Management. Richards’s experience includes nearly a decade of work in the healthcare sector including public health, community health, community outreach, public affairs, and research. He is a Doctor of Science (DSc) student in Emergency Management at Jacksonville State University where his research interests include the intersection of public health and Emergency Management, social vulnerability/social determinants of health, community resilience, community capacity building and sustainability. He volunteers as the Director of Research at Peacebuilding Solutions; a non-profit global humanitarian assistance organization with UN ESOSOC consultative status and is a former Advisory Board member of the Georgia Trauma Foundation. A native Atlantan, Richards relocated to Tampa in 2019 and was inducted into the Emerging Leaders of Tampa Bay in 2020. Richards received his Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from Morehouse School of Medicine and his Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Communication from Kennesaw State University. He is a former Dr. Bill Jenkins Achievement Award recipient for exceptional academic achievement and volunteer experience in public health and strives to leverage his knowledge, skills, and abilities to improve outcomes of vulnerable populations through servant leadership.