SCHOLAR MENTORS
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
JOSÉ MORENO
He is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
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.
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.
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.
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.
