Meet Professor Dutra

About Professor Dutra

Vaneesha Dutra, Ph.D. is a professor with over 20 years of experience in higher education, banking, and real estate.

Dr. Dutra is an Endowed Professor of Finance at Morehouse College and serves as the Associate Dean in the Division of Business and Economics. She is an active researcher publishing academic papers on the racial and gender wealth gap, financial literacy programming and efficacy, and financial decision making, and was the inaugural Tracy A. Pruitt Visiting Research Faculty Fellow at the Wharton School of Business. Further, she is a consultant in these areas and her work has earned numerous grants and fellowships, including being named a Research Faculty Fellow for both the Center for Black Entrepreneurship, and the PNC Bank Center for Entrepreneurship.