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.
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.
DAVID MONTEJANO
A historian and sociologist, he is a Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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).
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.
ARTURO MADRID
He has had a long and diverse career, having served as a professor and administrator at both public and private colleges and Trinity University; as a federal official; as the director of a national fellowship program; and as the founding president of an institute for policy studies.
DINO CORONADO
He is currently an Area Superintendent with the El Paso Independent School District, the largest school district in El Paso, Texas.
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).
EMILIO ZAMORA
He is currently a professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin.
GUADALUPE SAN MIGUEL, JR.
He is a Professor of History at the University of Houston, who specializes in Mexican American Education. He also has served on the History Department’s Executive and Graduate committees.
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.
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.
CECILIA HENRÍQUEZ FERNÁNDEZ
She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Information at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. At MIT, Dr. Henríquez founded and established a STEM outreach program for middle school students on the MIT Campus.
STEPHANIE ALVAREZ
She is an Associate Professor of Mexican American Studies School of Interdisciplinary Studies & Community Engagement at the University of Texas – Río Grande Valley College of Liberal Arts.
ANUPMA SINGH
Singh is currently pursuing a second doctorate in the School of Education and is a Research Assistant at Iowa State University. Prior to attending Iowa State University, Singh taught at the University of Minnesota.
PATRICIA ROMNEY
Currently, her work is focused on consulting and coaching for excellence and equity in higher education.
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.
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.
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.
