Dr. Dianne G. Delima

Dr. Dianne G. Delima is a Project Policy Analyst for The Institute for Meaningful Engagement (TIME). Delima received her doctorate in Higher and Postsecondary Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she focused on the learning experiences of first-generation college-going students of color and faculty members' use of a funds of knowledge approach for teaching in college classrooms. Her research has been published in College Teaching and in two edited volumes. 

Delima's work and research interests are informed by her prior roles in elementary schools in Southern California, as a Research Assistant for the Department of Mexican American Studies at the University of Arizona, and her involvement with Professor Anna Neumann on Metropolitan Colleges Institute for Teaching Improvement at Columbia University. Her research interests in higher education are supplemented by her prior work as a student affairs administrator at Barnard College and as a Researcher and Administrative Coordinator for the Center for Understanding Race Education, under the direction of Professor Amy Stuart Wells.