Dionne Worthy serves two distinct roles for the Department of African American Studies. First, she manages the schedule of Professor Eddie Glaude, attending to his personal correspondence, and coordinating media requests to include radio interviews and televised appearances, as well as speaking engagements. Worthy also plans and coordinates all public AAS events, the major AAS lecture series, the Faculty Brown Bag Seminars, and the Faculty Graduate Seminars. She also works with the AAS faculty programming committee to consider all event co-sponsorship requests.