From left to right: Rocio Mendoza, Eric Hilton,
Zakiya Adair, Dr. Gabriel Gallardo, Rosa E. Ramirez, Dr. Gene Kim
The staff is composed of a program director, a principal investigator, and three graduate advisors who are in the process of obtaining doctoral or professional degrees.
The EIP 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
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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.
University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education.
University of
Wisconsin-Madison. |
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Rosa E. Ramirez Counseling Services Coordinator email: rosaelia Rosa is a UW graduate with a BA in Art History. She has been working for the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity full time now for the last 3 years. She is very interested in learning about other cultures and languages. She plans on returning to the UW to pursue her Masters in Public Administration & International Studies.
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Zakiya Adair
email: eip2 Zakiya is a fourth year graduate student in the department of Women Studies. Zakiya's area of interests include women's 20th century social history (broadly defined). Specifically, she plans to research Black women entertainers performing abroad during the period of the Harlem Renaissance, specifically looking at Josephine Baker for new interpretations of feminism and black nationalism in the early twentieth century. |
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Eric Hilton Eric is a PhD student in astronomy.
He studies low mass stars (roughly one-third the mass of the Sun), focusing in
particular on the physics and observational effects of flares. He also served
in the U.S. Peace Corps in Guyana as a high school science teacher and library
coordinator. He is the planetarium outreach coordinator and works with Pre-MAP,
a program to increase diversity in astronomy. He is a co-founder of a science
education non-profit called Technically Learning. |
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Rocio Mendoza
email: mcnair2 Rocio is pursuing a master’s degree in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies program in the College of Education. Her research interests are in the access and retention of students of color in higher education. Rocio is currently studying the transitions of immigrant students from high school to college, both from a policy and psychosocial perspective, and uses Critical Race Theory and Latino Critical Theory as theoretical frameworks. |
