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Staff
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, associate director, and three graduate advisors who are in the process of obtaining doctoral or professional 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
Directors
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Gabriel Gallardo, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President of Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity/Principal Investigator and Project Director
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
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
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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Graduate Advisors
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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
email: mcnair1
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.
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