Dr. Rochelle Parks-Yancy didn’t always think that she would end up as a university professor.
For a brief moment, she even toyed with the idea of working on Wall Street.
But a life in academia wasn’t unfamiliar terrain to the business school professor either.
Parks-Yancy, who was recently awarded tenure at the Jesse H. Jones School of Business at Texas Southern University, grew up in a household with two professor parents: Dr. James Benson Parks III, a psychologist, and Dr. Georgia Thomas Parks, a practicing social worker.