G. Rumay Alexander, EdD, RN, FADLN, FAAN, is a Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Nursing and a nationally recognized leader in workforce diversity, health equity and inclusive excellence. Her remarkable career reflects an unwavering, decades-long commitment to culturally relevant care, leadership development, and systemic transformation in health care.

Dr. Alexander has also previously served as the Director of the Office of Inclusive Excellence as well as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion for the entire UNC-Chapel Hill Campus. She has also provided leadership and resources for the Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Adams School of Dentistry.

At the national level, Dr. Alexander's influence has been extraordinary. She served as President of the National League for Nursing, representing over 40,000 nurse educators and 1,200 schools of nursing, and represented the profession on the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Workforce Commission helping to develop the AHA’s seminal report, In Our Hands: How Hospital Leaders Can Build a Thriving Workforce. She also served as a two-term board member of the American Organization of Nurse Leaders and spent two decades as Senior Vice President of Clinical Affairs at the Tennessee Hospital Association, where she founded the Agenda 21 Program for Healthcare Administrators. Dr. Alexander developed nursing’s definition of racism through her role as the American Nurses Association's Senior Equity Advisor for the Commission to Address Racism in Nursing, which is being widely adopted by nursing schools. She is also a Board Member of The Leapfrog Group, which empowers patients with hospital safety grades and quality metrics.

Across a career spanning more than 45 years in public policy, advocacy, teaching, and health career development, Dr. Alexander has become one of nursing's most sought-after thought leaders, guiding academic, corporate, health care, and religious organizations through the exploration of marginalizing processes and the lived experiences of difference. Her appointments to health care initiatives include the Tri-Council of Nursing, the American Hospital Association’s Workforce Commission, the board of the American Organization of Nurse Executives, and the National Quality Forum Nursing Care Performance Measures’ Steering Committee. Dr. Alexander is also co-editor of Nursing Leadership: A Concise Encyclopedia, Second Edition and has authored multiple book chapters, and peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Alexander was inducted into the North Carolina (NC) Nurses Association Hall of Fame in 2025 and was recognized as one of NC’s 100 Great Nurses. Dr. Alexander was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 2013.