The Fred D. Gray Institute Fellows Program

Definition and Nature

Following a well-established model from academic and non-profit sectors, the Fred Gray Institute Fellows are a national group of outstanding individuals with distinguished backgrounds and great competencies. The 2025 cohort of Fred Gray Institute Fellows were appointed by Attorney Fred Gray, who witnessed the announcement of their appointment at the Inaugural Symposium on March 15, 2025.

The Fred Gray Institute Fellows Program supports innovative interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship, especially as an outgrowth of Attorney Gray’s life work through law, medical ethics, history, political science, voting rights, and human and civil rights and the region in and surrounding Tuskegee, Alabama.

Institute Fellows are called to address the most important issues of our day, enabling the convening work of the Gray Institute to be sui generis. The Institute Fellows are actively engaged in establishing high quality reputation of the Institute.

Dr. David Fleer coordinates the Institute Fellows Program which began in March 2024.