Evelyn McDowell

Dr. Evelyn Aniton McDowell, Ph.D., CPA, CGMA is the President of the Board of Directors and founder of Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage. She is also an Associate Professor of Accounting at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Baldwin-Wallace College, and her Master of Accountancy and Doctor of Philosophy in Accountancy from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. She is the Program Director and co-founder of the Aspiring Accounting Professionals Program, an organization devoted to increasing the number of minority accounting professionals through mentoring, community involvement, experiential learning, and academic and peer support. 

Dr. McDowell was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. In her spare time, she researches her family’s genealogy and is a member of the Princeton, NJ Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is currently searching the following surnames: Polk, Aniton, Anderton, Blakeley (Alabama); Passmore, Colbert, and Jolly (Georgia).