Dr. Allen Sessoms

Dr. Allen Sessoms is the current President of the University of the District of Columbia. He served as President of Delaware State University prior to his current position. He is a former lecturer of Public Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs in Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He served as the President of Queens College and the Executive Vice President and Vice President of Academic Affairs at the University of Massachusetts. Sessoms worked twelve years at the U.S. State Department where he served as a Senior Technical Advisor for the Department’s Bureau of Oceans & International Environmental and Scientific Affair and the Director of the Bureau’s Office of Technology & Safeguards. He later worked as a counselor for Scientific and Technological Affairs in the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France and a minister-counselor of Political Affairs and Deputy Chief Minister of Mission (Deputy Ambassador) at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society. Sessoms received his undergraduate degree from Union College and soon after attained a M.S. degree in Physics from the University of Washington. He then earned a Master of Philosophy Degree and Ph.D. degree in Physics at Yale University.