Research Interests

• Supporting marginalized student, staff and faculty success in higher education

• Justice oriented, community centered policy and practice in higher education

• Student activism’s role in justice work

• Racialized organizational theory in higher education

Research Statement

The work I do is focused on students with socially marginalized identities including race, sexuality, gender, dis/ability and income level and neurodivergence. I also work on programming for early career scholars with marginalized identities.

The higher education system is reckoning with questions of equity and access while still perpetuating systems that actively harm and dehumanize students, staff and faculty of color. I produce critical work that highlights places for radical transformation of higher education towards equity for all.

Education

Educational Policy Analysis

• Critical policy analysis
• Critical Discourse analysis
  

Qualitative Research Methods

• Focus Groups
  
• Interviews
  

Evaluation and Implementation REsearch

• Ethnographic Observation
  
• Culturally Responsive Evaluation
  

Digital + Print Communications

• web design
  
• social media
  

Identity Affirming Mentorship 2023

Mentorship Academy, University of Pittsburgh

Institutional Memory at Smith College 2022

Study of Women and Gender Department, Smith College

Building Brave Spaces Panelist 2018

Teen Education Convening at ICA Boston

NSF AGEP funded project

PI: Linda DeAngelo

Project ELEVATE

Development of an institutional supports for early career racially minoritized faculty in Engineering

● Evaluated equity practices in place to serve minoritized faculty within three Engineering Education

departments.

● Organized and inventoried all necessary documents to ensure a streamlined and efficient process.

● Produced visually appealing and concise presentation materials to effectively communicate complex

analysis findings to stakeholders.

● Demonstrated expertise in distilling complex information into digestible and impactful slides.

UBelong Research Collaborative

Development of an ecological belonging intervention to support racially minoritized students in STEM.

● Observed focus groups and formulated thematic stories to create material for social-belonging intervention.

● Prepared manuscripts for publication

● Qualitative data analysis

● Conducted literature reviews and identified gaps to propose a new theoretical model to encompass Latine

international student experience in STEM.

● Conducted semi-structured interviews, cognitive interviews, and focus groups.

NSF and IES funded project

PI: Linda DeAngelo

Higher Ed Equity Advancement Lab

• Prepared manuscripts for publication on a variety of equity topics in higher education
  
• Peer reviewed manuscripts for the American Educational Researchers Association
  

Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education New Professionals and Graduate Student (NPGS) Review Board

• Prepared manuscripts for publication on the ways gender has been used to shape experiences and outcomes for students, staff and faculty, and how that interacts with other identities.
  

Godwin, A., DeAngelo, L., McGreevy, E., McChesney, E., Binning, K., Díaz, C., Dorvè-Lewis, G., Elie, K., Kaufman-Ortiz, K. J., & Rohde, J. Communicating for belonging in first-year engineering. Proceedings from the 2023 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Professional Communication Conference, Ithaca, NY.

DeAngelo, L. Godwin, A., McGreevy, E. McChesney, E., Binning, K., Buswell, N., Schunn, C., Díaz, C., Dorvè-Lewis, G., Kaufman-Ortiz, K. J., Bañuelos, M., Conrique, B., Cooper, C., Elie, K., Forster, R., Gonzalez, B. J., Lewis, D., Perkins, H., & Zounlomè, N. O. O. The process of building faculty buy-in for course-based adaptations of an ecological belonging intervention to transform engineering representation at scale. Proceedings from ASEE 2023: American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore, MD.

Allan, A., Saporu, D., Riedo, E., Anna, S., DeAngelo, L., Douglas, A., Felciai, N., Khan, N. Kovačević, J., Marks, S., Saunders, W., Schlesinger, E., Wang, Y, Rohde, J., Díaz, C., & Zounlomè, N. O. O. Collaborative research: AGEP FC-PAM: Project ELEVATE (Equity-focused Launch to Empower and Value AGEP Faculty to Thrive in Engineering). Proceedings from ASEE 2023: American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore, MD.

Zounlome, N.O.O., Baker, B. A., Wilkins-Yel, K. G, Díaz, C., Dorvè-Lewis, G., & Elie, K.,

(Under Review). ‘You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated’: BIPOC

student’s advice on embodying resilience and resistance at PWIs