SCHOLAR MENTORS
CATHERINE PRIETO OLIVAREZ
Currently, she is the Articulation Specialist for Guided Pathways to Success with the Dallas County Community College District and is an adjunct at Richland College.
AIDA HURTADO
She is a Luis Leal Endowed Professor and current faculty member of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
SARAH RODRIGUEZ
She is currently an Assistant Professor in Iowa State University’s School of Education.
RICK VOORHEES
He is a principal of an independent higher education consultancy, Voorhees Group LLC; he works with community colleges, state higher education agencies, and national foundations in the areas of institutional performance, quality assurance, and student success.
JOSÉ MORENO
He is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
MARÍA JOSEFINA SALDAÑA-PORTILLO
She is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Director of Undergraduate Studies at New York University.
JOSÉ DAVID SALDÍVAR
He is a scholar of late post-contemporary culture, especially the minoritized literatures of the United States, Latin America, and the Trans-America hemisphere, and of border narrative and poetics from the sixteenth century to the present.
CHRISTOPHER CUTTER
He currently serves as Assistant Clinical Professor of the Child Study Center in the Yale School of Medicine as well as Director of the Chronic Pain and Recovery Center at Silver Hill Hospital.
ANNE MARIE NUÑEZ
She is currently an associate professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Program in the Department of Educational Studies at the Ohio State University. She also serves as an Associate Editor of The Journal of Higher Education and an Associate Editor of Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research.
RAMÓN ANTONIO MARTÍNEZ
He is an assistant professor in Literacy, Language and Education at Stanford University.
CELESTE ALEXANDER
She is Associate Director for the Educational Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
TERESA VILLELA
She currently practices and teaches at the University of California, San Francisco, one of the top medical schools in the country. She is also Chief of Service at the San Francisco General Hospital Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Vice Chair of the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine.
PATRICIA GÁNDARA
She is a Research Professor and Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA. She is also Chair of the Working Group on Education for the University of California-Mexico Initiative in which she is spearheading a number of California-Mexico education projects.
LUIS PONJUAN
He is an Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration and the Executive Director of the IDEAL (Investing in Diversity, Equity, Access, and Learning) research project in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas.
KIP TELLEZ
He is a Professor in the Education Department at UC Santa Cruz where he served as Chair from 2007 to 2014 and is the current editor of Teacher Education Quarterly. Dr. Tellez is also a fellow of Stevenson and Crown colleges, as well as participating faculty in Latin American and Latino Studies.
JOSE F. ARANDA JR.
He is an Associate Professor of Chicano/a and American Literature in the English Department of Rice University, where he teaches courses in Chicano/a literature, Asian American fiction, and nineteenth and twentieth-century U.S. literature.
JOHN H. STANFIELD
He is Emeritus Professor at Indiana University Bloomington and an African American/Indigenous American activist, public sociologist, and ordained ecumenical interfaith public minister.
MARICELA OLIVA
She is a faculty member of the Higher Education program at the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies. She serves as Higher Education Coordinator regarding program implementation for the M.Ed. in Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, emphasis in Higher Education and Student Affairs and for the Higher Education emphasis to the Ed.D.
LINDA HAGEDORN
She is Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs, International Programs, Student Services, Diversity, and Community in the College of Human Sciences and Professor in the School of Education at Iowa State University.
PEDRO REYES
He is The Ashbel Smith Professor of Education Policy, Department of Educational Administration, The University of Texas at Austin and Special Assistant to the Chancellor at The University of Texas System.
LADRINA WILSON
She currently serves as Dean of Students at Scott Community College, one of the Eastern Iowa Community Colleges. During her tenure at EICC, she has spearheaded numerous initiatives to advance the culture as well as developed professional development programs to enhance understanding of diversity and social justice.
JAIME CHAHIN
He is Dean and Professor of the College of Applied Arts at Texas State University San Marcos. His principal teaching and research interests involve educational, social, and economic policy issues that impact Latino/a populations in America.
