Camille O. Cosby

Camille O. Cosby is the eldest offspring of Guy and Catherine Hanks's four children. Embued with an immense intellect and sense of social responsibility, she has long been an advocate for education and for the continued financial support of the United States' historically African-American colleges and universities (HBCUs). Along with her husband Bill Cosby, she donated $20 million in 1988 to Spelman College, the prestigious and historically African-American women's college located in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. By 1994, they had donated over $70 million to several HBCUs. Not one to merely rest on the laurels of her famous spouse, she earned a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in 1992. Her doctoral dissertation was published by The University Press of America in 1994 as "Television's Imageable Influences: The Self-Perceptions of Young African-Americans" ( ISBN 0819195219). Additonally she has continued her long occupation as business manager for her husband, overseeing all philanth