Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity
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.
From left to right: Brooke Cassell, Graduate Student Advisor; Ms. Rosa E.
Ramirez, Counseling Services Coordinator; Issa Abdulcadir, Graduate Student
Advisor; Dr. Gabriel Gallardo, Director and Principal
Investigator/Associate Vice President of Office of Minority Affairs and
Diversity; Dr. Gene Kim, Associate Director.
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
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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.
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Gene Kim, Ph.D.
Associate Director of
McNair & Early Identification Program, OMAD;
Adjunct Faculty of Assessment/Statistics, College of
Education
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
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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.
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Graduate Student Advisors
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Issa Abdulcadir
Graduate Student Advisor
email: mcnair1
Issa Abdulcadir is a second year graduate student in the
Sociology Department, with research interests in identity
formation among second-generation youth, urban spatial
regulation, and educational inequality. He holds a BA in
English from Amherst College, and was a high school English
teacher in Washington DC prior to enrolling at UW. This is
his first year with McNair/EIP.
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Brooke Cassell
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.
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Our Recent Volunteer Intern!
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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.
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June Han, Ph.D.
Volunteer/Intern
Ph.D. Sociology 2007, Harvard
University
M.S. 2001,Harvard University
B.A.. Sociology 1997, University of California-Berkeley.
June is excited to be joining McNair/EIP as a
volunteer/intern. She is interested in advising, student
services, and higher ed administration. June moved to Seattle
about two years ago, and she is originally from California.
Her area of expertise in Sociology
is in Race and Ethnicity. She lives in Bellevue with her husband
and two children.
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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
