Adriel A. Hilton, PhD

Dr. Adriel A. Hilton is Managing Editor for JAAME. Currently, Dr. Hilton serves as executive assistant to the president and chief diversity officer at Upper Iowa University. Hilton is also the director for the Center for African American Research and Policy (CAARP). While a public policy fellow at the Greater Baltimore Committee, he worked closely with the CEO and policy advisors to research, develop, and advocate a public policy agenda related to the business organization’s work on such issues as economic growth, regional transportation, education and workforce preparedness. A graduate of the Higher Education (Ph.D.) program at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, Hilton has been a Frederick Douglass Scholar at Clarion University of Pennsylvania in the College of Education and the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. He was featured as one of Ebony Magazine’s “2009 Young Leaders Under 30” for his educational achievements, service to the community and leadership. Dr. Hilton earned his master’s degree in Applied Social Science with a concentration in public administration from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University and completed his undergraduate degree as a cum laude graduate in Business Administration with a concentration in finance from Morehouse College. In his young career so far, he has received numerous accolades, including the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education’s “Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation” award and the Outstanding Research Award from the American College Personnel Association’s Standing Committee for Men.