Dawn Osborne-Adams comes to Yale from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dawn Osborne-Adams was named the inaugural university ombudsperson at Yale University. Since 2018, Osborne-Adams has served as university ombuds at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Earlier in her career, she led the ombuds office at Binghamton University in New York. Osborne-Adams has also held roles in the federal judiciary and has prior experience teaching as an adjunct faculty member.
Osborne-Adams is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and the University of North Carolina School of Law.
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Bio: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, June 8, 2026