Torrance Stephens

Torrance T. Stephens is originally from Memphis, Tennessee. He attended Morehouse College where he studied, psychology, biology and chemistry. He received a master’s degree in Educational Psychology and Measurement from Atlanta University and a Ph.D. in Counseling from Clark Atlanta University. He has lived in Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and several other African countries working with Africare International and conducting Infectious disease research. He is the author of several books including a novel, poems, essays and several collections of short prose. He was an Assistant Professor at Emory University in the Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta for more than 14 years and until recently, as Associate Professor and Health Education/Health Promotion Track Coordinator for the MPH program at Morehouse School of Medicine in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine. He is the father of two and currently lives in Palmetto, Georgia, and teaches Statistics at Clark Atlanta University in the Departments of Psychology and Political Science.