Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS (selected)

· kidsSTREAM Children's Museum, Vice President

• kidSTREAM Children's Museum, Board of Directors

· Establish an Ethnic and Race Studies program at Cal Lutheran, also see Diverse Issues in Higher Education

· California Lutheran University Bias Reporting System Team, member

· California Lutheran University Equity Leadership Council, member

· California Lutheran University Hispanic Serving Institutions Strategic Planning Implementation Team, member

· Establish the First Generation Scholars Committee for the Western Political Science Association

· HERS Leadership Council

• American Political Science Association, Status Committee on First Generation Scholars founding member

· Women of Color in Political Science, Workshop organizer

· UTPA (now UTRGV) Institutional Transformation Grant, co-author and former CO-PI

· Establish the Women’s Faculty Network at UTPA

· Social Science Study/Campus Climate Study PI at UTPA

INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS (selected)

· Panelist, CLU Graduate School of Education First Generation Scholars Celebration

· Keynote Address at CSU CI Undocumented Student Stoling Ceremony. California State University, Channel Islands. 15 May 2019.

· "Teaching & Mentoring Underrepresented Students in Higher Education" Ventura College, 26 April and 14 August 2019

· "Envisioning California Lecture: Racial and Ethnic Politics in the Golden State" CSUN, 13 March 2018

· “The Long and Winding Road to Academic and Professional Achievement.” Keynote at the Women’s Economic Roundtable. WOMENtum The Perfect Self(ie): Building Your Professional Toolkit. Ventura County Office of Education. 3 March 2018.

· "Looking Back and Moving Forward: The 20th Anniversary of the APSA Latino Caucus" American Political Science Association, 29 August 2018.

· “Latino Leadership: The Latino/a Political Identity” Invited Talk: The Community Foundation Progreso Latino Fund Keynote Address. 5 October 2016.

· “Making Connections: How to Build a Professional Network and Why You Need One.” Invited talk Prepared for Presentation at the" Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Sept 2016.

· Contributor “Entering College? Latino Professors Share Some Great Advice” NBC News 21 August 2015.

· "Latinx Student Success in STEM.” HHMI Speaker Series. University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley. July 20, 2016.

· “LIVING the DREAM: New Immigration Policies and the Lives of Undocumented Latino Youth” Invited Talk at the Center for Race and Ethnicity, 10^th Annual Faculty Forum. Rutgers University. October 30, 2015

· with Margaret Graham. “Differences in Perceptions of Work-Family Policy at a Hispanic Serving Institution,” in “Work-Family Challenges Faced by Women in STEM: Studies from ADVANCE Institutions Panel. Work Family Researchers Network Conference. New York, NY. June 21-22, 2014.

· with Margaret Graham. ““Differences in Perceptions of Workplace Climate? A Case Study,” in “ADVANCE(ing) Women: From Fixing Women to Transforming Organizations”. Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Honolulu, HI. May 15-17, 2014.

· with Sokoloff, William. “Braceros, Politics, Resistance” NAACS Tejas Foco. Edinburg, TX. February 21-23, 2013.

· “Faculty Perceptions about Latin@ Student Success” NAACS Tejas Foco. Edinbrug, TX. February 2013.

· with Alfaro, Edna, Miguel Diaz Barriga. Focus on Latin@ Student Retention & Success. APSA Teaching & Learning Conference. Long Beach, CA. February 8-10, 2013.