Dr. Dora Clayton-Jones, assistant professor in the College of Nursing, was named to the Milwaukee Business Journal’s 2022 list of Women of Influence, a cohort that includes prominent business and community leaders from throughout southeastern Wisconsin.
Clayton-Jones is the president of the International Association of Sickle Cell Nurses and Professional Associates and is committed to advancing health and health care equity for adolescents and young adults living with chronic illnesses. Using community-based participatory research and qualitative research methods, she partners with the community and recipients of interventions to advance health and health care equity for adolescents and young adults living with sickle cell disease. She is also an Arthur J. Schmitt Leadership Fellow and received a 2021 Betty Irene Moore Fellowship for Nurse Leaders and Innovators from the University of California, Davis nursing school.
