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Blanca-Azucena Pacheco (she/her) is of Xinka and Maya Poqomam descent from southeastern Guatemala, and grew up in Tovangaar/ Los Angeles, California. She is a community-based public health researcher and health sovereignty practitioner. Dr. Pacheco is a postdoctoral fellow with the Our Stories Our Medicine (OSOMA) community-based archive at the Graduate School of Social Work and with IRISE. Dr. Pacheco completed her doctoral degree in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Additionally, Dr. Pacheco holds a dual Master’s in Public Health and Latin American Studies from San Diego State University, and a Bachelor of Science in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention from the University of Southern California.  

Publications:

Prioritizing Competencies for “Research” Promotores and Community Health Workers (2020)

How can we help African American substance users stop smoking? client and agency perspectives (2017)

Minding the gap in research ethics education: Strategies to assess research competencies in community health workers/promotores (2015)

Improving Research Readiness in Community Health Workers: Identifying Relevant Research Competencies (2014)

Jacqueline (Jackie) del Castillo is passionate about centering activists in social movement research and making good health possible for everyone. Her research focuses on the lived experience of activists and how health social movements aid health innovation and systems change. As a professional, she welcomes and seeks ways to collaborate with activists, funders and policymakers to strengthen movement organizing through the development of useful practical tools, evidence and theory. For instance, alongside completing a PhD at Imperial College London at the Institute of Global Health Innovation, she served as a Senior Fellow at the Blue Shield of California Foundation in 2019 advising a movement-building strategy to end domestic violence across California. From 2016-2018, while at Nesta Health Lab, a UK innovation think tank, she worked with colleagues to establish the first UK social movement incubation program, strategically support NHS England’s Health as a Social Movement program and produce two policy reports on social movements. In 2021, Jacqueline worked with non-profit leaders in Africa and Asia, sponsored by the UK Foreign Office, to devise a movement strengthening framework and disability activists through Action on Disability and Development to explore their needs for movement support. She also currently serves on the World Economic Forum Council on Equity and Social Justice as a Global Future Council Fellow (GfC) which advocates for embedding equity and social justice into wider economic transformation.

Dr. del Castillo has over 17 years of practical experience in health innovation, including launching new initiatives and managing service design projects in healthcare settings at the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation and the Helix Centre for Design as well as designing affordable medical devices for newborns in low-resource hospitals at Equalize Health. Dr. del Castillo has a MS and BS in Engineering from Stanford University where she trained in design thinking at the Stanford Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (‘d.school’). She has taught movement-building and design thinking at Oxford Saïd Business School, the Royal College of Art, Berkeley Haas Business School, Stanford University and Imperial College London. In 2018, one of Dr. del Castillo's movement-building workshops spawned a new research programme on “Movements of Movements” at Oxford Saïd Business School. As a boundary-spanner, Jacqueline believes in joining people across cultures, fields and invisible borders. You might find her taking portrait photographs, making things, hiking in the mountains and perusing art in the RiNo District.

Social Movement Support Lab: https://irise.du.edu/smsl 

Publications:

Do International Health Partnerships contribute to reverse innovation? A mixed methods study of THET-supported partnerships in the UK (2017) Kavian Kulasabanathan, Hamdi Issa, Yasser Bhatti, Matthew Prime, Jacqueline Del Castillo, Ara Darzi, Matthew Harris

Low-cost innovation in healthcare: what you find depends on where you look (2017) M Harris, Y Bhatti, M Prime, J Del Castillo, G Parston. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 111 (2), 47-50

We change the world: What can we learn from global social movements for health? (2017) J del Castillo, L Nicholas, R Nye, H Khan Nesta

The collaboration between and contribution of a digital open innovation platform to a local design process: The case of OpenIDEO and Helix End-of-Life challenge (2017) J del Castillo, Y Bhatti, M Hossain

Health as a Social Movement: The power of people in movements (2016) J del Castillo, H Khan, L Nicholas, A Finnis Nesta

Allison Bair is a social psychologist who received her PhD from York University in Toronto. She studies the social etiology of physical and mental health outcomes among stigmatized group members. She is particularly interested in how racial identity and the experience of stigma interact to produce beliefs, strategies, and behaviors that impact the well-being of the targets of stigma. As a Black Canadian with Jamaican roots she is aware of how racial and cultural contexts influence racial identity. She had the opportunity to examine this as part of her dissertation research. Dr. Bair was awarded an Organization of American States Research Fellowship to conduct research on racial identity and implicit racial attitudes in both Canada and Jamaica. This work is representative of her commitment to enriching the knowledge base that the Black diaspora can draw upon to strengthen their understanding of themselves. Her long-term goal is to develop a research program that can be used to inform interventions that maximize mental and physical health, resilience, social justice orientation, self-sufficiency, and a sense of belonging among stigmatized group members. In her leisure time, her biggest joy is the laughter and light in the eyes of her nieces and nephews. As an IRISE post doc at Denver University, Dr. Bair will be conducting research examining racial biases in psychological care recommendations.

Publications:

Do These Norms Make Me Look Fat? The Effect of Exposure to Others’ Body Preferences on Personal Body Ideals (2014)

Examining the consequences of exposure to racism for the executive functioning of Black students (2010)

Verónica Pacheco is an ethnomusicologist specializing in ritual music of the Indigenous peoples of Mexico and other musical genres of Latin America and the Middle East. She received her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include music and the politics of participation, collective performances of music as registers of Indigenous history, and the intersections of Indigenous sustainability and cultural rights. She directs two research initiatives in Mexico, “The Nahua Religious Music Project” and “The Urban Soundscapes Project.” At DU, Dr. Pacheco contributes on the Spirituals Project at the Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies.

Projects:

• Music Across Borders
• Sonic Resistance: Indigenous Women and Social Justice

May is a community-rooted researcher and educator who supports social movements led by those most impacted by systemic injustices. As a research associate for Californians for Justice, she helped design and conduct multi-methods research to strategically advance youth-led educational and racial justice campaigns. Her other collaborative research informs social movements' work such as mental health needs in schools; gender neutral restrooms; integrated voter engagement; and youth governance. May has also been involved in grassroots organizing against gentrification in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, graduate student unionizing, and critical consciousness/ leadership development in Taiwanese and Asian American communities. Her dissertation, Emotional Counterpublics, shows how Black, Latinx, and Southeast Asian youth harness emotions to redefine and expansively enact social change. She has published her research on Asian American and immigrant young adult political engagement and health equity frames in community organizing in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies and Health Affairs. May received her PhD in Sociology, with a Certificate in Public Policy and emphasis in Gender Studies, from the University of Southern California. She also has prior degrees and grounding in Ethnic Studies.   May will be working with the Social Movement Support Lab at IRISE.

Dra. Christine Vega is a first-generation, Chicana-Indigena Feminista from Pacoima, California. She earned her Ph.D. in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with formal training in the fields of Social Science and Comparative Education of Race and Ethnic Studies. As an interdisciplinary teacher-scholar-activist, Dra. Vega specializes in Critical Race Theory and Chicana/Latina Feminisms. She holds an A.A. from Los Angeles Mission College, B.A.’s in Chicana/o & Women Gender Studies from UCLA, and an M.Ed. from the University of Utah. Her research is centered on Motherscholars of Color movidas (hustles) while co-leading two collectives: Chicana M(other)work Collective and Mothers of Color in Academia (MOCA) de UCLA. As a postdoctoral research fellow, Dra. Vega will work directly with the Office of Teaching and Learning (OTL) and the directors of Inclusive Teaching Practices and Academic Assessment to implement inclusive pedagogies, critical theories in teaching and learning and contribute innovative lenses of analysis and praxis. In her role as an educator, she will be teaching Inclusive Pedagogies and other courses for the Morgridge College of Education.

IRISE Postdoctoral Fellow 2018-2020

IRISE Postdoctoral Fellow 2018-2020

IRISE Postdoctoral Fellow 2018-2020

Assistant Professor, Western University (current)

PhD from University of Washington

Postdoctoral fellow, University of Denver: 2014-2015

Assistant Professor, University of Kansas: 2015-2019

Associate Professor, Stanford University (Graduate School of Education): 2019-Present 

Honors:

Emerging Scholar Award, Critical Race Studies in Education Association (2019-2020)

Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, Ford Foundation (2018-2019)

Alison Piepmeier Book Prize, National Women’s Studies Association (2018-2019)

Faculty Achievement Award for Promising Scholar, University of Kansas School of Education (2017-2018)

Division G Early Career Award, American Educational Research Association (AERA) (2017-2018)

Outstanding Emerging Scholar, Western Social Science Association (2017-2018)

Outstanding Emerging Scholar, Western Social Science Association, (2017-2018)

Outstanding Doctoral Candidate of 2013, University of Colorado Boulder (2012-2013)

AERA Dissertation Minority Fellowship in Education Research Award, American Educational Research Association (2012-2013)

Honorable Mention, Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Award, University of Colorado, Boulder (2012-2013)

School of Education Fellowship, University of Colorado, Boulder (2008-2013)

Dual Endorsement-Special Education & English as A Second Language Fellowship, University of Colorado at Boulder (2006-2008)

Books:

The Pedagogy of Pathologization: Dis/abled Girls of Color in the School-prison Nexus

Source(s):

https://profiles.stanford.edu/subini-annamma

Postdoctoral Fellow in Open Space at University of Denver: 2014 – Present

Writings:

Co-Author
The Social-Ecological Resilience of an Eastern Urban-Suburban Watershed: The Anacostia River Basin

Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Denver (Sociology and Criminology)

Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, Counseling-Student Affairs, Northern Arizona University: 2018 – Present

Senior Research Associate, Rankin & Associates Consulting: 2015 – Present

Visiting Assistant Professor, Higher Education and Student Affairs, Iowa State University: 2016 – 2018

Awards:

2018    
ACPA Advocate Award, ACPA Coalitions & Entity Groups
ACPA- College Student Educators International

2017    
Presidential Citation
ACPA-College Student Educators International

2013    
LGBT Faculty Staff Association Pride Award for contributions and commitment to the LGBT Community
University of Maryland-College Park

2011    
Outstanding Contributions to the Orientation Profession, Region VIII
NODA- Association for Orientation, Retention, and Transition in Higher Education

2009   
Certificate of Recognition for Exempt Staff Member- Office of Undergraduate Studies,
University of Maryland- College Park

2009    
Outstanding Orientation Professional, Region VIII
NODA- Association for Orientation, Retention, and Transition in Higher Education

2008    
Outstanding Regional Coordinator
NODA- Association for Orientation, Retention, and Transition in Higher Education

2007    
Outstanding Orientation Professional, Region VIII
NODA- Association for Orientation, Retention, and Transition in Higher Education

Book:

Campus rebellions and plantation politics: Power, diversity, and the emancipatory struggle in higher education.

Invited Book Chapters:

Countering heternormativity: LGBTQIA students and collegiate contexts

Building successful foundations: Best practices in orientation, retention, and transition (pp. 66-78).

Difficult subjects: Insights and strategies for teaching about race, sexuality, and gender (pp. 167-182)

Leadership theory: A facilitator’s guide for cultivating critical perspectives (pp. 68-80)

Designing successful transitions: A guide for orienting students to college (3rd Ed., pp. 131-146)

Website:

https://www.phdian.com/about-me

Assistant professor, Anthropology, Purdue University: 2019 – Present

Reports:

Okonkwo, H. 2015. Spelbots: A Case Study for fostering inclusive environments for STEM learning. Report submitted to the National Science Foundation, Washington, DC

Moses, Y. and Okonkwo, H. 2012. “Diversity and Learning Environments Survey: The African American student experience. Report submitted to the Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, University of California Riverside

Journal Articles:

Okonkwo, H. (2016) Realigning the crooked room: The science learning experiences of African American women. (In preparation)

Okonkwo, H. (2016) She builds robots: A case study of the Spelman College robotics team. Science, Technology & Human Values. (Submitted)

Okonkwo, H. (2016). Making a place for science in the South: The institutional narrative Spelman women in STEM. Journal of Negro History. (In Preparation)

Okonkwo, H. (2016) a. Designing economic inclusion: The case for ethnography in civic innovation. (In Preparation)

Website:

https://hollyokonkwo.com/

Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies and Science, Ithaca College: 2018 – Present

Honors:

International Affairs Grant, The Ohio State University, 2014

Humane Studies’ Hayek Fund for Scholars, The Institute of Humane Studies, George Mason University, 2013

Environmental Graduate Research Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2011

Publications:

Mudliar, P, “Role of Social Networks in Collaborative Water Management”, Michigan Journal of Sustainability(Forthcoming, 2015)

Koontz, Tomas M., Divya Gupta, Pranietha Mudliar, and Pranay Ranjan. (revised and resubmitted). “Institutional Adaptation in Social-Ecological Systems Governance: Some Clarifications and Synthesis.” Environmental Science and Policy

Mudliar, Pranietha, John Obrycki, Jeanne Osborne, Pranay Ranjan, Angela Thatcher, and Tomas Koontz (submitted) “Interdisciplinary Environmental Graduate Education in the Big 10 Universities: Barriers, and Bridges for Working Across Disciplines.”

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, California State University, Northridge: Present

Lawyer at Nolan Barton Olmos, LLP: Criminal defense

Publications:

Daniel Olmos, “Racialized Im/migration and Autonomy of Migration Perspectives: New Directions and Opportunities,” Sociology Compass, 13:9 (2019).

Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of San Diego: Present

Scholarly Work:

“‘We’re not going to sit idly by’: 45 Years of Asserting Native Sovereignty Along the Missouri River in Nebraska.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 7:1 (2018): 200-214.

Assistant Professor, Biology Department, St. Ambrose University: 2018- Present

Publications:

Broder ED, Guilbert KE, Tinghitella RM, Murphy M, Ghalambor CK, Angeloni LM (2019). Authentic science with dissemination increases self-efficacy of middle school students. Integrative and Comparative Biology.

Westrick SE, Broder ED, Reznick DN, Ghalambor CK, Angeloni LM (2019). Rapid evolution and behavioral plasticity in an environment with reduced predation risk. Ethology.

Mensch E, Kronenberger JA, Broder ED, Funk CW, Fitzpatrick SW, and Angeloni LM (2019). A potential role for immigrant reproductive behavior in the outcome of population augmentations. Animal Conservation.

Tinghitella, R.M. and Broder, E.D., Gurule-Small, G.A., Hallagan, C., and Wilson, J.D. (2018). Purring crickets: The evolution of a novel sexual signal. The American Naturalist. Read the SAU Scene Magazine story on Dr. Broder's research.

Broder, E.D., Angeloni, L.M., Simmons, S., Warren, S., Knudson, K.D., Ghalambor, C.K. (2018) Authentic science with live organisms can improve evolution education. The American Biology Teacher. 80(2), 116-123.

Kane, E.A., Broder, E.D., Warnock, A.C., Butler, C.M., Judish, A.L., Angeloni, L.M., Ghalambor, C.K. (2018). Small fish, big questions: inquiry kits for teaching evolution. The American Biology Teacher. 80(2) 124-131.

Broder, E.D., Handelsman, C.A., Ghalambor, C.K., and Angeloni, L.M. (2016). Evolution and plasticity in guppies: how genes and environment shape phenotypes. National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science.

Website:

DaleBroder.wordpress.com

Assistant Professor, Higher Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro: 2018 – Present

Publications:

Harper, C., Kiyama, J. M., Ramos, D., & Aguayo, D. (2018). Examining the inclusivity of parent and family college orientations: A directed content analysis. Journal of College Orientation & Transition (25)1, 30-42

Kiyama, J.M., Harper, C.E. & Ramos, D. (2018) First-generation students and their families: An examination of institutional responsibility and familial assets during college access and transition. In A.C. Rondini, B. Richards-Dowden, & Nicolas Simon (Eds.) Clearing the Path: Qualitative Studies of the Experience of First-Generation College Students. Lexington Press.

Ramos, D., Kiyama, J. M., Harper, C. E. (2017). Controlling Images: Institutional stereotypes of engagement of low-income families, first-generation families, and families of color. Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity (3) 1,126-158.

Kiyama, J. M., Harper, C. E., Ramos, D., Aguayo, D., Page, L. A., & Riester, K. A. (2015). Parent and family engagement in higher education. ASHE Higher Education Report, 41(6), 1-94.

Assistant Professor, Higher Education Administration Leadership, California State University, Fresno: 2018 – Present

Publications:

Failed Educational Justice: Refugee Students’ Postsecondary Realities in Restrictive Times

Honors:

API KC Award Winner

ACPA APAN Outstanding Graduate Student Award

NASPA APIKC Future Leader

2017 Outstanding Graduate Student Award

Director for Inclusive Excellence College Access and Pipeline Programs

Professor of Law, University of Colorado Boulder

Articles / Publications:

Firearms in the Family

The Stereotyped Offender: Domestic Violence and the Failure of Intervention

The Exit Myth: Family Law, Gender Roles, and Changing Attitudes Toward Female Victims of Domestic Violence

A Diva Defends Herself: Gender and Domestic Violence in an Early Twentieth-Century Headline Trial,

Domestic Violence and State Intervention in the American West and Australia, 1860-1930

Provoking Change: Comparative Insights on Feminist Homicide Law Reform

In the Sweat Box: A Historical Perspective on the Detention of Material Witnesses

Restructuring the Debate Over Fetal Homicide Laws

Intimate Homicide: Gender and Crime Control, 1880-1920

Homicide on Holiday: Prosecutorial Discretion, Popular Culture, and the Boundaries of the Criminal Law

The Discretionary Power of "Public" Prosecutors in Historical Perspective

Criminal Law: United States Law, in Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Stanley Katz et al. eds.) New York: Oxford University Press, (2009) (peer refereed).

Commentary: Was the Bill of Rights Irrelevant to Nineteenth-Century State Criminal Procedure?, 18 J. Contemp. Legal Issues 501 (2009) (peer refereed) (invited symposium).

Public Responses to Intimate Violence: A Glance at the Past, 121 Public Health Reports 460 (2006) (peer refereed).

Program Evaluator at Latino Community Foundation of Colorado: 2014-Present

Associate at Atlas Capital Group, LLC

Director, Student Communications and Student Success Technologies at Front Range Community College: 2020 – Present

Assistant Director of Graduate Student Activities, Division of Campus Life and Inclusive Excellence: 2017-2020

Director of Office of Diversity and Inclusion at University of Denver

Adjunct professor of Higher Education at the Morgridge College of Education

Publications:

Is it even possible: Student affairs preparation for more racially diverse college campuses

Sexism.

'Who am I? An exploration of role identity formation and socialization throughout the doctoral process

Navigating the space between: Obama and the post racial myth

IRISE GA 2018-2020 and Director of IRISE Student Programs

PhD from DU Graduate School of Social Work May 2020

Assistant Professor, University of MN