Christine Martey-Ochola, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President and Dean of STEM and Workforce Development
Department(s) / Office(s): Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Division
Phone: 607-778-5089
Email: marteyocholac@sunybroome.edu
Location: AT-201
Mailstop: 67
Degrees: Diploma, Kenya Polytechnic University; B.A., East Stroudsburg University; Ph.D., Lehigh University
Dr. Christine Martey‐Ochola is the current Associate Vice President and Dean of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) and Workforce Development at SUNY Broome and has been in the role since June 1, 2024. She is a food scientist, biochemist, and pharmaceutical chemist who has spent the greater part of 25 years researching cancer chemotherapeutics as well as engaging in formulation of clean hair products. She had a successful academic career at Villanova and Shippensburg Universities, where she taught and ran research in Chemistry and Biochemistry at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and Villanova University.
Her research work led her to founding a clean beauty company, Nuelehair, as well as Avo Global Ltd, a Pennsylvania based management consulting firm with specific expertise in engineering, education, agribusiness, and public health. Christine also engages in strategic consulting for (STEM) programs in K‐16 institutions and was selected as a 2019 Pennsylvania STEM Ambassador.
Dr. Martey‐Ochola loves entrepreneurship, workforce development, and community development, and is a mentor for women owned high growth businesses that belong to the Philadelphia based PACT MentorConnect program which provides coaching for high growth technology and healthcare businesses. She was recognized by the White House as a champion of change for her work in economic empowerment and development. She was a co‐founder of the former Sub‐ Saharan Africa Chamber of Commerce, an organization that facilitated trade and investment between the US and Africa. Under her direction the chamber facilitated US business entry into multiple African countries, advised hundreds of companies on best practices in doing business in Africa, as well as presented at several international business forums on African trade and investment.
