Janice B. Walker is an American mathematician who taught and served as an administrator at Xavier University in Cincinnati and Assistant to the President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer there.
Janice Anita Brown Walker[1] was born in Meridian, Mississippi and raised in Florida.
The title of her dissertation was Closure and Expansions in Series of Complex Exponentials and her advisor was Douglas Grassel Dickson.
In 1986, she was named Associate Professor, and beginning in 1992, she served as chair of the Mathematics and Computer Science department for seven years.
[2][4][5] Walker was Xavier's vice president for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion for five years after which she rejoined the mathematics department before retiring from the University.