Trustee: Ronda E. Stryker
Director, Stryker Corporation
B.A., University of Northern Colorado
M.A., Western Michigan University
Spelman College Board of Trustees: Elected in 1997
Vice-Chair of the Board and Chair, Arts, Innovation & Technology Committee
City of Residence: Richland, Michigan
Ronda Stryker is a member of the Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows, serves on the Board of Directors of Stryker Corporation and is vice chair of Greenleaf Trust, a Michigan chartered trust bank. Stryker previously served as a director at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo Community Foundation and the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. As co-chair of the Women’s Education Coalition, she was instrumental in helping to raise more than $1 million to form the organization, which supports women who return to school as non-traditional students. Stryker’s philanthropic interests are focused on the empowerment of women and support of non-traditional student enhancement programs at colleges and universities. Additionally, her charitable gifting seeks to assist in the elimination of racism, sexism and homophobia.