In recognition of Women's History Month, we at SisterMentors are celebrating our recent Ph.D.s. These are phenomenal women and great role models for girls of color everywhere. In less than nine years and with very limited resources, SisterMentors has helped 28 women of color get their doctorates. Below are brief profiles of our recent graduates.

Losang Rabgey helped SisterMentors reach a milestone as its 25th Ph.D. She was awarded her doctorate in Feminist Anthropology on March 1, 2006 from the University of London, England. Rabgey made history on March 1 as one of the first Tibetan women in the West to earn a doctorate. She is part of the first generation in her family to go to college. Born in a refugee camp in India after her parents fled Tibet in 1959, Rabgey and her family emigrated to Canada where she received most of her education. She and her family work to improve the lives of Tibetans in Tibet primarily through education, with an emphasis on women's and girls' education. They have established the first school in her father's village in Kham, the south-eastern region of the Tibetan plateau. The school requires that fifty percent of the students must be girls. Rabgey's dissertation is the first doctoral study of secular Tibetan women and her fieldwork has focused on oral histories of Tibetan women in India and the West. Her dissertation committee suggested she publish her dissertation. She is the Executive Director of Machik, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. which she co-founded with her sister, Tashi.

Jan E. Tyson received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Fordham University in New York on February 22, 2006. Education has always been stressed in Tyson's family. She is the first in her family to receive a doctorate and part of the third generation to receive a college degree. Tyson's dissertation is entitled, "Assessment of Antisocial Personality Disorder, Readiness to Change, and Treatment Outcome in Incarcerated Substance Abusers." Tyson has extensive experience working in New York City and Washington, D.C. as a therapist in community mental health, urban hospital and correctional settings. She has worked primarily with a seriously and persistently mentally ill and substance abusing adult population.

Koritha Mitchell received her doctorate in English from the University of Maryland, College Park on October 21, 2005. She is a native of Houston, Texas and is the first in her family to go to college. Mitchell's dissertation is on pre-1935 anti-lynching plays written by black writers. She is currently a tenure track Assistant Professor at Ohio State University. She specializes in turn- of-the-twentieth-century African-American literature and culture, black drama and performance, and racial violence. Mitchell has received fellowships from the David Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora and the Ford Foundation. Mitchell had come to SisterMentors for the community of scholars and also for the opportunity to mentor girls who face many of the challenges she did.