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.
LAURA RENDÓN
She is a Professor of Higher Education in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas San Antonio. She is also Co-Director of the Center for Research and Policy in Education.
ALICIA FERNANDEZ
She is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and practices primary care medicine as a general internist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General.
KIMBERLEE DAVIS
She joined the faculty of Texas State University, School of Family and Consumer Sciences in Fall 2007 and currently holds the rank of associate professor.
AMAURY NORA
He is Professor of Higher Education, Co-Director of the Center for Research and Policy in Education, and Associate Dean for Research in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is also Editor of The Review of Higher Education, the journal for the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE).
VICTOR SÁENZ
He is Chair of the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Texas at Austin, and he is a Fellow in the A.M. Aikin Regents Chair in Junior & Community College Education Leadership.
ANGELA VALENZUELA
She is a professor in both the Educational Policy and Planning Program within the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Texas at Austin and holds a courtesy appointment in the Cultural Studies in Education Program within the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. She also serves as the director of the University of Texas Center for Education Policy (TCEP).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
JOSÉ MORENO
He is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
SARAH RODRIGUEZ
She is currently an Assistant Professor in Iowa State University’s School of Education.
CARLOS TORRE
He is, currently, Professor of Education at Southern CT State University and a Fellow at Yale University, where he served for seven years as Asst Dean of the College and member of the Psychology faculty. He is also currently the President of the New Haven, Connecticut Board of Education
NORMA ELIA CANTÚ
Trinity University has appointed Cantú, a prominent Chicana and Latina cultural studies expert and author, as the Norene R. and T. Frank Murchison Endowed Professor in Humanities. She is professor emerita of English and U.S. Latina/o Literatures at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
PATRICIA ROMNEY
Currently, her work is focused on consulting and coaching for excellence and equity in higher education.
MANUELA ORJUELA
She is an assistant professor in Pediatric Oncology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where she also serves as an Investigator and Member of the Executive Committee. Orjuela is a member of the Columbia Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan and Scientific Director at the Community and Ambulatory Research & Enrollment (CARE), Herbert Irving Cancer Center. She is also a faculty affiliate of the Columbia Mexican Studies Center and the Institute of Latin American Studies.
