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.