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From left to right: Dr. Gabriel Gallardo (Director/Associate Vice President
of OMA/D), Dr. Gene Kim (Associate Director), Hoang Ngo (Graduate Student
Advisor), Ms. Rosa Ramirez (Counseling Services Coordinator), Teresa Mares
(Graduate Student Advisor), Audra Gray (Graduate Student Advisor)
Staff
The staff is composed of a program director, associate director, counseling
services coordinator, and three 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
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.
Dr.
Gallardo's research interests and professional experience
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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 Student Advisors
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Audra Gray
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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