Faculty Diversity Committee

Mission

The CLA Faculty Diversity Committee is a standing committee focused on diversity efforts and initiatives in the college. Serving as an advisory body to the Dean, the committee will develop diversity related goals, strategies for achieving those goals, and methods for measuring progress. Specifically, the committee has the following initial goals:

1. Work to attract, cultivate, and nurture individuals who are invested in devoting critical and scholarly attention to different identities and communities specific to their disciplines;
2. Offer more college-supported opportunities for diversity-related education, training, and recognition;
3. Provide more explicit institutionalized value for a variety of diversity-related efforts and knowledge.

Membership

The CLA Faculty Diversity Committee will consist of approximately 10-12 tenured and/or tenure-track faculty. Members will serve two-year terms with options to renew each fall quarter. Nominations for new members will be solicited from existing committee members and other faculty who are leaders in areas of diversity. Nominees will then be recommended to the Dean. The committee will be co-chaired by the Associate Dean of Diversity and Curriculum, and a faculty member elected by the committee.

Member		Department	Contact
	Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti (Chair, CLA)	Associate Dean for Diversity and Curriculum, CLA	jpedrott@calpoly.edu
	Ryan Alaniz	Associate Professor, Social Sciences	ralaniz@calpoly.edu
	Regulus Allen	Associate Professor, English	rlallen@calpoly.edu
	Ramón Esquivel	Assistant Professor, Theatre	resqui05@calpoly.edu
	Elizabeth Folk	Assistant Professor, Art and Design	efolk@calpoly.edu
	Julie Garcia	Professor, Psychology & Child Development	jgarci31@calpoly.edu
	Denise Isom	Professor, Ethnic Studies	disom@calpoly.edu
	Megan Lambertz-Berndt	Assistant Professor, Communication Studies	lambertz@calpoly.edu
	Carrie Langner	Associate Professor, Psychology and Child Development	clangner@calpoly.edu
	Jess Lee	Assistant Professor, Social Sciences	jlee938@calpoly.edu
	Susana A. López	Assistant Professor, Psychology and Child Development	slopeza@calpoly.edu
	Martha Galvan-Mandujano	Assistant Professor, World Languages and Cultures	mgalvanm@calpoly.edu
	Silvia Marijuan	Assistant Professor, World Languages and Cultures	smarijua@calpoly.edu
	Jenell Navarro	Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies	jnavar18@calpoly.edu
	Amber Williams	Assistant Professor, Psychology & Child Development	awill138@calpoly.edu
	Grace Yeh	Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies	gyeh@calpoly.edu