Meet our Early Identification Program Staff!

The staff is composed of a program director, associate director, counseling services coordinator, and two graduate advisors who are in the process of obtaining doctoral degrees.

The EIP/McNair staff welcomes you to drop in or schedule an appointment to meet with us. Please see the Advisor Schedule if you would like to make an appointment with a specific Graduate Advisor. Each advisor's e-mail username is listed below.

All e-mails should be addressed to user at u.washington.edu

Professional Staff 


Gabriel Gallardo, Ph.D. 
Associate Vice President of Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity

email: gabegms 


Dr. Gallardo earned his Ph.D. in Geography. His research interests include the geography of race and ethnicity, Latino settlement in the U.S., and the socio-spatial dimensions of ethnic economies. His dissertation research focused on the social, economic, and geographic dimensions of African American, Chinese, Korean, and Mexican entrepreneurship. He is also interested in minority student access to graduate education and graduate retention issues.



Gene Kim, Ph.D. 
Associate Director of McNair & Early Identification Program, OMAD              
    

email: genekim  

Postdoctoral Research Fellow 1999-2001, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education.
Ph.D. Education 1999, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
M.S. Counseling 1995, University of Wisconsin-Madison.


Gene's research and life interests/experience


 

Rosa E. Ramirez, M.S. 
Counseling Services Coordinator

email: rosaelia

Rosa is a UW graduate with a B.A. in Art History. She also holds a Masters of Public Administration degree. She has been working for the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity full time now for the last 7 years. She is very interested in learning about other cultures and languages. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in International Studies.

 

 

 

 

Graduate Student Advisors

Graduate Student Advisor

email: mcnair2

Brooke Cassell is a third year graduate student in the School of Forest Resources, and this is her first year with McNair/EIP. Her research interests are fire ecology, reconstruction of fire histories using tree-ring studies and restoration ecology. She grew up outside of Chicago, IL and obtained her BA in Sound Recording at Columbia College Chicago in 2003.

 






Raj G. Chetty

Graduate Student Advisor

email: mcnair1

Raj Chetty is a PhD candidate in the English Department, with research interests in Caribbean literature and culture across English-, French-, and Spanish-language regions, black diaspora studies, postcolonial literary studies, and performance studies. His dissertation analyzes connections between radical theater projects and movements by Trinidadian, Dominican, and Jamaican playwrights. He holds a BA in English from UC Riverside, and an MA in English from Brigham Young University. This is his first year with McNair/EIP.    

 

 

 Our Recent Volunteer Intern!





Roxana Chiappa Baros

rchiappa@uw.edu

Roxana is a first year masters student in the College of Education. Her research interests are in the doctorate education, internationalization of higher education and the strategies of equity that countries implement to deal with issues of poverty, equity and economic growth.

Roxana grew up in the north of Chile, Copiapó, and obtained her bachelor degree in Social Communication at the University of Santiago of Chile (USACH). Since 2007 until 2011, she worked as an institutional researcher in the Studies Department and Institutional Analysis in the same university.

Contact us today!

EIP is sponsored by The Office of Minority Affairs.

Early Identification Program 
173G Mary Gates Hall - Box 352803 
University of Washington 
Seattle, Washington 98195-5845 
206-543-6460 
eip@u.washington.edu