I am committed to serving my students, the department and university, and the Community in addition to the discipline of Political Science. I have been an active mentor for undergraduate and graduate students, and served as an advisor for a number of internships and independent studies. Additionally, I participated in a 6 month study to examine mentoring between faculty members of color and undergraduates of color.
I am also an active participant in the community and campus dialogues on race and ethnicity. I have served on Diversity Committees at both the College and Department levels to stimulate greater discussion and strategies for how to increase racial, ethnic, and gender diversity among faculty on campus through recruitment and retention. I was also a member of the university-wide Latino/Hispanic Task Force that worked towards developing a strategic plan for increasing the number of Latino students and faculty members on campus, and creating a mentorship program to support retention. I am also an active member of the admissions committee and actively involved in ways to increase the diversity of the applicants and recruits to the graduate program at UW. At UW, I am the current Director of the Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race (WISIR), as well as the WISIR Field Director for Latino Politics and Immigration.
In the discipline of Political Science, I am one of the co-organizers of SPIRE, the Symposium on Politics, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity. It is an meeting one-day conference held at various universities. We have held meetings at Yale, Rutgers, IU, UPenn, Vanderbilt, and UW. Its purpose is to workshop research in progress by both faculty and graduate students on the politics of immigration, race and ethnicity. The goal is to provide constructive feedback for revisions and eventual publication of work. Meetings provide opportunities for networking and mentoring between faculty and graduate students. I have also been involved in graduate student recruitment at efforts at Ralph Bunche Summer Institute at Duke University. I have served on three APSA Presidential Task Forces and am currently one of the editors of Political Research Quarterly.
I am also an active participant in the community and campus dialogues on race and ethnicity. I have served on Diversity Committees at both the College and Department levels to stimulate greater discussion and strategies for how to increase racial, ethnic, and gender diversity among faculty on campus through recruitment and retention. I was also a member of the university-wide Latino/Hispanic Task Force that worked towards developing a strategic plan for increasing the number of Latino students and faculty members on campus, and creating a mentorship program to support retention. I am also an active member of the admissions committee and actively involved in ways to increase the diversity of the applicants and recruits to the graduate program at UW. At UW, I am the current Director of the Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race (WISIR), as well as the WISIR Field Director for Latino Politics and Immigration.
In the discipline of Political Science, I am one of the co-organizers of SPIRE, the Symposium on Politics, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity. It is an meeting one-day conference held at various universities. We have held meetings at Yale, Rutgers, IU, UPenn, Vanderbilt, and UW. Its purpose is to workshop research in progress by both faculty and graduate students on the politics of immigration, race and ethnicity. The goal is to provide constructive feedback for revisions and eventual publication of work. Meetings provide opportunities for networking and mentoring between faculty and graduate students. I have also been involved in graduate student recruitment at efforts at Ralph Bunche Summer Institute at Duke University. I have served on three APSA Presidential Task Forces and am currently one of the editors of Political Research Quarterly.
