About Us

Driven by a passion for health equity and a belief that everyone should feel beautiful in their skin, an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Communication and Culture, LLC created the Beauty in Every Shade website and Skin Lightening Community Conversations Toolkit. We created these resources with the goal of providing communities with educational tools that they can use to make informed decisions regarding their health and beauty.

Donna Oti, PhD

Founder, CCLLC & Project Director

Denise Johnson, MD, FACOG, FACHE

Health Equity Consultant

Eleana Lazarus, PhD

Research Consultant

Hannah Barr, MA

Psychology Researcher and Designer

David Person

Media Consultant

Carolyn Gordon, PhD

Consultant

Andrea Moore

Research Assistant