About Wharton CEO

Wharton CEO is the go-to source for evidence-based solutions to problems of inequity and access.

By leveraging Wharton’s research insights and corporate relationships, CEO will help educate firms, policymakers, and individuals in their own space on how to lead, intentionally build inclusive cultures and drive change within and beyond their organizations.

Ken Shropshire and Fareeda Griffith speak at the 2023 Juneteenth Wellness Summit

Meet the CEO Team

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FAREEDA GRIFFITH
Managing Director

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Dr. Fareeda Griffith is the Managing Director of the Wharton CEO Initiative at the Wharton School. With over a decade of experience in higher education, she is helping to launch Wharton CEO with the creation of the CEO Lab while promoting and addressing issues of equity and opportunity, and community engagement. As a quantitatively trained sociologist and demographer, Griffith received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania and worked for the last thirteen years at Denison University as an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Sociology and Director of Global Health.

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MADISON SUMNERS
Senior Content Producer

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Madison is the Senior Content Producer of Wharton CEO at the Wharton School, where she is responsible for driving awareness of the initiative and disseminating faculty research. With her expertise in creative content creation, Madison leads the ideation and execution of event promotion, website, social, and visual content. Prior to her role at CEO, Madison honed her skills in developing social media strategies and cultivating online communities for small businesses, non-profit organizations, and campaigns rooted in social equity. She is passionate about empowering historically underrepresented communities by leveraging the power of visual and audio storytelling. Madison is a graduate of Temple University, where she earned her degree in Media Studies and Production.

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TABITHA MUSTAFA
CEO Fellow

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Dr. Mustafa is the Wharton Coalition for Equity and Opportunity Fellow at the Wharton School. Their primary responsibilities at CEO include analyzing and synthesizing Wharton’s social and economic equity research for business firms, policymakers, and the public, while producing academic scholarship that integrates notions of socioeconomic justice and ethics into business and political economic theory. Before joining the CEO team, Dr. Mustafa earned a Ph.D. in Legal Studies & Business Ethics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and spent a decade working with civil society organizations, governments, and universities to address human rights and racial justice issues.

“Historically, the equity and opportunity issues of a given day were captured by labels such as abolition, reconstruction, suffrage, equal employment opportunity and even, simply, diversity. Wharton’s framing of Equity and Opportunity is positioned to be that sustained effort and nomenclature-agile enough to deal with whatever business and society encounters in this context today and moving forward.”

Kenneth L. Shropshire, Former Faculty Director, Wharton CEO

Faculty Advisory Board

Meet the Wharton faculty doing impactful research in healthcare, finance, and more.

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KENNETH L. SHROPSHIRE
David W. Hauck Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies and Business Ethics
Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies
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HASMA BASTANI
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions
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GUY DAVID
Alan B. Miller Professor, Professor of Health Care Management, Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, Chair, Health Care Management Department
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KATHERINE KLEIN
Edward H. Bowman Professor
Professor of Management
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CORINNE LOW
Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy
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DAVID MUSTO
Ronald O. Perelman Professor in Finance
Director, Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance
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DAMON J. PHILLIPS
Professor of Management 

Affiliated Faculty

Meet our growing roster of experts from Schools across Penn.

HERMAN BEAVERS
English, School of Arts & Sciences
DESMOND UPTON PATTON
Social Policy & Practice and the Annenberg School for Communications
CAMILLE CHARLES
Sociology, School of Arts & Sciences
DENNIS P. CULHANE
Social Policy, School of Social Policy & Practice
J. MARGO BROOKS CARTHON 
Family and Community Health, Penn Nursing
FAROUK DAKO
Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine
TUKUFU ZUBERI
Sociology, School of Arts & Sciences
HYUNJOON PARK
Sociology, School of Arts & Sciences

Contact Us

Wharton Coalition for Equity and Opportunity

Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall 1150
3620 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104