She also serves as the Faculty Advisor for Carnegie Mellon's African and African American Studies Minor. Fields-Black's research has been funded nationally by the Woodrow Wilson, Ford, as well as by Fulbright-Hays. At Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Fields-Black has received funding from the Berkman and Faulk Funds, Innovation and Technology, and the Henry Luce Foundation Project: The Greening of Early Undergraduate Education and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation: Institute for the Study of Entrepreneurship.