Dr. Tomashu “Kenyatta” Jones

Dr. Tomashu “Kenyatta” Jones was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. In 2006, he graduated from California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) with a Master of Science Degree in Counseling with an emphasis in (School and Community Counseling. Dr. Jones is also a graduate of University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSE&IS) with a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Education with concentrations in Urban Schooling and Education Research.

His Dissertation was titled: The Lost Voices of African American Fathers: An Interpretative Analysis of their experiences. His master’s thesis and dissertation were personal because he was a single father since his son’s birth.

In 2013, he was awarded and successfully completed a Postdoctoral Educational Residency at University of North Carolina Chape Hill with the Eshelman School of Pharmacy. After completing his Postdoctoral residency, he served as a Visiting Postdoctoral Residency Scholar at San Diego State University (SDSU) under the leadership and mentorship of Dr. J. Luke Wood, Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Vice President for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion.

His areas of specialties are education (assessment, evaluation, and outcomes) and health care disparity research. Also, Dr. Jones spent his early academic career and research scholarship focusing on minority male initiatives, specifically: African American, Latino/Mexican American males, and South East Asian males.

Following this service, Dr. Jones provided his expertise for 10 years+ on State of California Initiatives and projects aiding in the establishment of Federally Qualified Health Clinics (FQHC) and Community Based Adult Day Service (CBAS) programs in high poverty communities. These programs are state designed for ensuring that the most vulnerable populations, developmentally disabled, homeless, and frail elderly seniors 65 and over have an adequate safety net for medical and social services to remain independent and in their respective homes.

In 2018, Kenyatta was recruited by Western University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine (COMP-Northwest), he served as the Manager of Assessment and Outcomes for the entire College spanning two states (California and Oregon). His primary responsibility was to focus on academic outcomes, programmatic reporting and accreditation compliance for the College, as well as teaching Biostatistics for first year medical students. He is a trained statistician and he enjoys working with colleges and organizations to help them become data driven institutions and helping them to close loops.

As an emerging leader in higher education and in health care disparity work, he has been able to manage the stewardship of programmatic initiatives, working hard to ensure the alignment with institutional processes in support of colleges and for-profit and not-for-profit’s overall mission. His experience has been gained in a variety of settings, each in addition to the skillset that he already possesses. Dr. Jones is well published and cited; he has written institutional effectiveness reports, co-authored strategic plans, written and edited retention plans, wrote grants, editor and publisher of educational research journals, presentation on diversity and inclusion, provided oversight of outcomes and assessment, and interface with national educational entities and scholars.

Dr. Jones currently resides in Huntington Beach, Ca and he enjoys reading autobiographies, cooking on the grill, going to church, spending quality time with family and friends and enjoys watching basketball, football, and boxing. Also, he enjoys going to visit his relatives in Shreveport, Louisiana where he has learned to cook all sorts of southern creole cuisines.