Pearl Fernandes is an associate professor of biology at the University of South Carolina Sumter who has long been associated with the SENCER project.  She is an author of Life Science in Context: Sub-saharan Africa & HIV/AIDS, a multiple institution collaboration, and serves on the Leadership Council for the SCI-South.  As a Leadership Fellow, Pearl will continue to serve as a resource for faculty in the USC system, as well as colleagues at other institutions, and will specifically share information about the modules she has developed. (SCI-South)

Pearl was elected a SENCER Leadership Fellow in November 2008.