Camesha Whittaker, Ph.D., is the Senior Vice President of Innovation and Design at the Propel Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Under her leadership, the Propel Center launched its inaugural tech product, Propel Learn, with over 1,000 users in 2023. In addition, Dr. Whittaker leads Propel’s virtual campus, overseeing product development, instructional design, curriculum development, research and development, faculty and consortia development.

With the support of founding partners Apple and Southern Company, the Propel Center serves as a dynamic epicenter of learning, equipping students with the requisite knowledge, skills, tools, and resources to revolutionize the global talent pipeline and workforce. Dr. Whittaker’s passion for this work stems from extensive, broad-based collaborations in the marketplace, in public higher education institutions, as well as in Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Nationally, her work has been featured on several media platforms. Worthy of note is her C-SPAN presentation on civility with Representatives James Clyburn, Cathy Castor, Dr. Thelma Daley, and Dr. Allida Black; her PBS leadership discussion, Side by Side with Dr. Nido Qubein; and her contribution to The National Urban League's Interrupt Racism Summit.

Before joining the executive leadership team at the Propel Center, Dr. Whittaker was the inaugural Director of the BJ Moore Center for Faculty Innovation and Associate Professor of Communication at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida, where she managed the e-learning and faculty development division. As a sought-after educator and education consultant with over two decades of experience, Dr. Whittaker’s record of unwavering commitment to nurturing academic excellence and facilitating individuals toward actualizing their full potential is without question.

As an award-winning academic, certified faculty developer, author, and influential business communication expert, Dr. Whittaker is an innovator whose wide-ranging background, spanning areas within technology, media, and education, along with her expertise in leadership and civility, marks her as a respected figure in the business, academic, and education technology sectors.

The legacies of American civil rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune and former United States First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt inspire Dr. Whittaker’s passion for advancing principles of civility and global citizenship. Her first book – Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary McLeod Bethune: An Unusual Friendship – proposes civility as a fundamental core value, necessary for fostering stronger socio-cultural relationships and advocating for a more cohesive society.

Dr. Whittaker earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communication from Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, FL, a Master of Arts degree in Public Communication from American University in Washington, DC, and a Ph.D. in Communication Studies, specializing in Organizational Communication, from Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA.