Michele Crespo-Fierro

Michele Crespo-Fierro (she/ella), PhD, MPH, RN, AACRN, CNE, FAAN, fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, is a clinical associate professor and the director of the LEAD Honors Program at NYU Meyers College of Nursing. She is an expert educator focused on diversifying nursing to deliver culturally congruent, linguistically appropriate care to patients through the life cycle. Her work and publications emphasize the need for nurses to engage in leadership practices and build trust with individuals and communities to achieve health equity. 

Crespo-Fierro serves on NLN committees for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives and is a Fellow of the AACN Diversity Leadership Institute. She is an Advanced AIDS Certified Registered Nurse, a Certified Nurse Educator, and a Fellow in the New York Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Nurses. She serves on the boards of the Catskill Hudson Area Health Education Center, Nursing Education Funds, the Greater New York chapter of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care and the New York chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses. 

Crespo-Fierro earned her BS in nursing at NYU Meyers and her MS in community health nursing and MPH in community health education, with a subspecialty in HIV/AIDS nursing, at the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, at Hunter College, City University of New York. She completed a PhD at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.  Her dissertation explored the culture care needs of Puerto Rican women receiving HIV care from nurse practitioners in New York City, with the intention of bridging culturally congruent caring and patient engagement practices.