| Summary: | Biologist Mary Styles Harris was born on June 26, 1949 in Nashville, Tennessee. She later moved to Miami. Her father, George Styles, was finishing his studies at Meharry Medical College, and her mother, Margaret, had completed her degree in business administration at Tennessee State University. Harris graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania in 1971. She then enrolled at Cornell University where she received a Ford Foundation doctoral fellowship to study molecular genetics. She graduated with her Ph.D. degree in 1975. In 1977, Harris became the executive director of the Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia where she raised money to fight sickle-cell anemia as well as to educate the community about sickle cell disease. She hosted a radio show, "Journey to Wellness," and was the founder and president of BioTechnical Communications, Inc. which focused on health issues by producing audiovisual materials on such health topics as breast cancer.
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