As chief diversity officer, LaMon provides her vision and leadership for the continued advancement of Adelphi University’s diversity and inclusion resources and programs. A proven innovator and leader, LaMon has been a key contributor to Adelphi for more than 15 years—as a full professor of English, former director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, prior department chair and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. She co-chaired the inaugural College of Arts and Sciences Diversity and Inclusion Committee and served as board member, development chair, and subsequently president of Cave Canem Foundation, Inc., an organization committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets.

LaMon earned her bachelor’s degree at Mount Holyoke College, a JD at the UCLA School of Law, and an MFA at Indiana University, Bloomington. The author of three collections, What Water Knows; Last Seen (a Felix Pollak Poetry Prize selection); and Gravity, U.S.A. (recipient of the Quercus Review Press Poetry Series Book Award), she is also the author of the chapbook, The Legend of Clarence Thomas, winner of the Integral Music Chapbook Prize; and author of the novel, In the Arms of One Who Loves Me, published by Random House/Ballantine Books.

Noted twice by the NAACP as a finalist in the category of Outstanding Literary Work, Poetry, Ms. LaMon is the recipient of fellowships from the BAU Institute at the Camargo Foundation, the Cave Canem Foundation, the Yaddo Foundation, and others.