Menah Pratt Vice President | Chief Strategy Officer | Licensed Attorney | University Executive | Board Member and Advisor | Risk & AI Leader | Chief Compliance and Governance Officer | Board Executive Committee Leadership March 22, 2026 Photo from: https://www.blackhistory.mit.edu/archive/black-women-academy-conference-hammonds-kilson-and-vest-1994 (Inspired by the “Black Women in the Academy: Defending

Disclosure: I wanted to use AI to help me write an article on my 10-year anniversary at Virginia Tech. I used Perplexity because I wanted to see how much documentation still exists about the work that has been done for the past ten years. In a time when so much

Disclaimer: This article is not written based on any affiliation with any university.  It is interesting to try to dissect an identity when that identity has been so core for almost twenty years.  In answering the question, “who are you,” I have often said, “I’m VP and professor at X