Graduate School Diversity Recruitment Working Group Team & Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board
The Graduate School Diversity Recruitment Working Group (GS DRWG) Team provides strategic planning, best practices, and campus-wide collaboration in diversity recruitment to graduate study at University of Maryland. The Team consists of faculty, staff, and graduate students invested in the recruitment of diverse students/populations, e.g., women in STEM, students of color, students with disabilities, non-traditional students, first-generation students, low-income students, LGBTQ+ students, veterans, interfaith and religious diversity into graduate school.
The Office of Graduate Diversity and Inclusion (OGDI) Program Director, Christopher Pérez, coordinates the activities of the Team in a collaborative setting to prepare Team members for year-round recruitment initiatives.
Current Members:
- Christopher Pérez, Associate Director, Office of Graduate Diversity and Inclusion, The Graduate School
- Zaiyah Whatley, BISI Program Director
- Tagrina Halim, Administrator, School of Business
- David O'Brochta, Faculty - SVPAAP-Institute for Bioscience & Biotechnology Research
- Oluchi Ofoha, Administrator, Physics
- Pin-Wuan Lin, Administrative Coordinator, Department of AREC
- Katherine Angel Joyner, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Maryland - A. James Clark School of Engineering
- Michael Scott Brick, Director of Student Services, School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- Tom Hurst, Assistant Director for Graduate Education, Dept. of Computer Science (CMSC)
- Rosemary Parker, Director, Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering
- Nancy Gray Smith, Assistant Clinical Professor, Assistant Director of Graduate Student Services, School of Public Health
- Nadine Dangerfield, Assistant Director of Graduate Studies, Anthropology
- Marcia Shofner, Co-Director MPAE Program, Department of Entomology
- Lisa Anne Taneyhill, Director Cell and Molecular Biology NIH T32 training grant
- Kim Nickerson, Assistant Dean, Equity Administrator and Diversity Officer, College of Behavioral and Social Scienes
- Kerri Poppler James, Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Kellie Robertson, Director of Graduate Studies, English
- Joshua Singer, Associate Professor, CMNS-Biology
- Josh Kiner, Administrative Coordinator, Department of Entomology
- Jose-Luis Izursa, Lecturer, Department of Environmental Science and Technology
- Jessica Chew, Academic Advisor, College of Education
- Jeffrey Franke, Assistant Dean and Chief of Staff, The Graduate School
- Iqbal Hamza, Professor, Department of Animal and Avian Sciences
- Heather Stewart, Assistant Director Graduate Studies, ENGR-Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Evelyn King-Marshall, Graduate Coordinator, School of Public Health
- Evelyn Cooper, Assistant Dean for Academic Programs & Director of Retention and Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives & AGNR SROP Program Director
- Edgar Moctezuma, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics
- Daniel Serrano, Faculty Specialist, IREAP, UMD/CNST Cooperative Agreement Scientific Coordinator, COMBINE Research Educator, Terps in Space Program Director
- Cristina Garcia, Program Coordinator, Graduate Office, Department of Mathematics
- Charles Delwiche, Professor, Computer, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences and Affiliate of Department of Biology and CBCB
- Bill Churma, Assistant Director, Academic & Student Affairs, Bioengineering
- Ankur Srivastava, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Robert Burgard, Coordinator of Graduate Studies, Women's Studies
- Hugh Bruck, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, A. James Clark School of Engineering and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Freddy Cisneros
- Jeff Waters
- Javier Navarro Rueda
- Brent Hernandez
Please contact Office of Graduate Diversity and Inclusion Program Director, Christopher Pérez (cperez6@umd.edu), if you would like more information about the GS DRWG Team or if you would like to be added to the Team list.