Alpha DeLap
Director, Research Services, UW Information School - Web link...
Dr. Alpha DeLap joined the Information School community in August 2002. As Director of Research Services, she works to nurture, promote and guide faculty, staff and student researchers. Her current research interests focus on the ethics of on-line research. Prior to moving to Seattle, Dr. DeLap taught communication, composition and gender and media studies courses in Colorado and Massachusetts. Her doctorate is in communication (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2003) with a specialization in group storytelling, ethnographic methods and the literature of trauma.

Cynthia del Rosario, '96
Director, Graduate Minority Recruitment & Retention, UW College of Education & Information School - Web link...
Cynthia's responsibilities include engaging faculty, students, and staff at both schools to advance an inclusive climate through (1) increasing the enrollment of students from historically underrepresented minority groups; (2) increasing the retention and graduation rates of students from historically underrepresented minority groups; (3) fostering an excellent and equitable educational and social learning environment that creates a welcoming and supportive climate for all students, faculty, and staff in the COE and iSchool, and; (4) engaging, building, maintaining, and sustaining both the COE and iSchool in meaningful relationships across the UW campuses and in our local, regional, and national communities. She has almost 15 years experience in graduate education, opening doors and challenging barriers to access and equity in education for students of color and students from other underrepresented groups. With a commitment to public service, she serves and has served on numerous university and community boards and committees, including the UW Diversity Council, a campus-wide organization; Asian Pacific American Women Faculty and Staff Association; UW Alumni Association Multicultural Alumni Partnership; UW (Faculty) Club Board; Board of Trustees of the Wing Luke Asian Museum, the nation's only pan-Asian American Museum, among other groups and organizations. Cynthia was recently honored with the 2007-08 Women of Color Empowered: Mentoring and Community Activism Award and is currently completing her PhD in Educational Leadership & Policy Studies. Her research areas include faculty diversity, access and equity for graduate students of color; racial and ethnic identity development; and Asian Pacific Islander American leadership in higher education.

George A Martinez
Director of Communications, UW Graduate School - Web link...
George Martinez has been Director of Communications at the UW Graduate School since July 2007. He most recently served as Director of Institutional Advancement at Glendale Community College after 14 years of experience in Arizona’s largest educational institutions: University of Arizona, Arizona State University, Pima Community College and Tucson Unified School District. He has held leadership positions in every aspect of public affairs, including development, public/media relations, marketing, and government relations. George is a doctoral candidate at New Mexico State University in Educational Administration. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Arizona in Journalism and Political Science/Public Policy, and attended the Harvard University Management Development Program through a competitive national scholarship. He has won many awards for writing and public affairs management, including the 2004 International Exemplary Leadership Award from the Chair Academy, a community college leadership organization. For nine years he taught public relations as Adjunct Faculty in English and American Studies at Arizona State University and he has published widely as a free-lance writer.

Jessica M Yellin, '04
Senior Consultant, UW Center for Instructional Development & Research - Web link...
Jessica M. Yellin is a senior consultant at the UW Center for Instructional Development and Research (CIDR). She consults with departments, faculty, and TAs in Math, Sciences, and Engineering, and teaches the Graduate School’s Interdisciplinary Courses on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. She holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington with dissertation research on structural vibration and damping of acoustic noise in thin-walled structures. As a research scientist for the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT) she conducted engineering education research resulting in recent publications on the ways by which engineering and science educators make decisions about their teaching, the impacts of teaching portfolios and professional portfolios in engineering and science, and diversity in STEM education. She continues this research on the Scholarship of Teaching at CIDR.

Michael Tu
Financial Analyst, UW University Advancement, Finance & Administration - Web link...
Dr. Tu started his career in biological research as an undergrad in the Department of Zoology at U.C. Berkeley, studying the mechanics of terrestrial locomotion in insects (cockroaches) for his undergraduate thesis. He continued to work in the same lab for another year after graduation, before moving on to start graduate studies. At the University of Chicago, he earned his Ph.D. with a dissertation on the mechanics of flight steering muscles in blowflies an their function in aerial maneuvers. Michael then returned to the West coast to work for a year teaching undergraduate Biology at the University of Puget Sound. His next move was to UW for a post-doc studying insect flight mechanics and control in hawkmoths. He stayed on in the same lab as a Research Scientist, doing his own research, managing the lab and supervising graduate and undergraduate research students. Two years ago, he jumped the academic fence and landed, by the most tenuous thread of sequential improbabilities, in the finance unit of UW Advancement (formerly Development and Alumni Relations), where for the last year and a half he has been impersonating a financial analyst.