ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Camille Beckles '06

Camille Beckles has built a career at the intersection of mission-driven innovation and creativity—advancing racial and health equity through data-driven roles in tech while gaining national recognition for her wheel-thrown ceramics, which have been featured in major retailers, media outlets, and museum exhibitions.

Camille has centered mission-driven work and creativity as key elements in her career pursuits. She spent five years at the Center for Policing Equity, where she helped build a data pipeline platform to empower communities and law enforcement agencies to make data-driven changes that advance more racially equitable policing. Most recently, she joined the healthcare startup Socially Determined as a product manager, where she works with data scientists and software engineers to build data tools that advance health equity for at risk populations. 

In her free time, she is the maker behind Camille at the Wheel, a collection of handmade, wheel-thrown ceramics. Her pottery has been featured in West Elm, Starbucks, and in several galleries and art shows across the country. She has also been profiled by the Today Show, Architectural Digest, New York Magazine, and more. Most recently, she was invited to facilitate a workshop at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in conjunction with Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, a landmark exhibition that showcased the work of 19th-century Black potters in the decades before and after the Civil War. Camille lives and works in Astoria, NY with her husband.

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