University of Washington

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.

Dr. Gallardo's research interests and professional experience

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

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.

Graduate Student Advisor

email:eip2

Audra Gray is a former 5th grade teacher and doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction (Education) whose interests include understanding culturally responsive & equity pedagogy in racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse classrooms; classroom discourse; and particularly the role of African American cultural communication in literacy development. She completed dissertation data collection last June and this year she will spend an unknown number of hours on analyses, "living with the data," and writing, writing, writing! Audra is also a 2008-2009 recipient of a Huckabay Teaching Fellowship and looks forward to designing a course tentatively titled,  "Teaching for Change" that will explore national K-12 models of equity pedagogy. However, she is most excited about bringing her energy and experiences in higher education to her new advising role with EIP/McNair.  When her laptop is not open, Audra is either at church choir rehearsal; doing service activities with her sorority sisters; or taking a walk around Greenlake.

Teresa Mares
Graduate Student Advisor

email:mcnair1

Teresa Mares is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology and pursues research and teaching interests in Latino/a immigration, food systems and agriculture, environmental and social justice, and applied and participatory research methodologies. Teresa has recently completed a graduate certificate in Women Studies. With a commitment to critical feminist ethnographic practice, Teresa will begin dissertation fieldwork during the summer of 2008. Her dissertation explores the issue of food security and hunger among Latino/a migrants in the Seattle area and the various strategies that this community employs to address food needs, including urban agriculture For the last three years, Teresa has been an instructor and teaching assistant in both the Department of Anthropology and American Ethnic Studies and is excited to bring these experiences to her advising at McNair. When she’s not working on her dissertation, Teresa can usually be found taking her dog for a walk or baking cookies.

Hoang Ngo

Graduate Student Advisor

email:mcnair2

Hoang is a first year PhD student in History. His research interests are Buddhism and  Buddhists in central Vietnam. What intrigues him most is the relationship between religion and state. In his free time, Hoang likes to relive his glory days on the tennis court.