A Revolutionary & Inspiring Researcher: The Louis Graham Virtual Roundtable

This first installment in the Louis Graham Virtual Roundtable series brings together Dr. Lance McCready, Justin Smith, and Charles Stephens of the Counter Narrative Project to honor Dr. Louis F. Graham, a public health researcher and advocate for Black queer communities who died in December, 2019. The panelists trace Graham's journey from Carleton College through his MPH at Morehouse School of Medicine and DrPH at UNC-Greensboro, highlighting how he overcame intersecting barriers of racism, homophobia, and classism to build a research legacy of over 1,000 citations centered on Black transgender and queer communities. The discussion frames Graham as a fearless, community-driven scholar whose commitment to ground-up, culturally grounded research continues to shape and inspire public health scholarship today.