Diana Arredondo
Professor, Architecture, Southwestern College
Christine Baker-Smith
Executive Director, The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, Temple University
Christine Baker-Smith is Executive Director of the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice. Before joining the Hope Center, she was a lecturer in research methodology for the quantitative methods in the Social Sciences M.A. program at Columbia University and an Education Policy Analyst for the NYC Independent Budget Office. She also served as Project Manager for the NYC High School Admissions Study—a randomized controlled trial. A sociologist of education, Baker-Smith’s training is in mixed-methods research and causal inference with a focus on student social and academic engagement across schooling transitions. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University in sociology of education; an Ed.M. in leadership, policy, and politics from Teachers College, Columbia University; an M.A. in social sciences of education from Stanford University; and a B.A. in sociology from Whitman College. She has published on adolescence and school transitions in numerous peer-reviewed journals such as Sociology of Education, Peabody Journal of Education, and Education Finance and Policy.
Devita Davison
Executive Director, FoodLab Detroit
Suzanne Desjardin
Acting Vice President, Student Affairs, Pima Community College
Jim Jacobs
President Emeritus, Macomb Community College, and Research Affiliate, Community College Research Center, Columbia University
Crispin Jeffrey-Franco
Director, Workforce Development, Pima Community College
Jennifer Latino
Senior Director, Strategy and Planning, EAB
Amanda Latz
Associate Professor, Higher Education and Community College Leadership, Ball State University
Dr. Amanda Latz is Associate Professor of Higher Education and Community College Leadership at Ball State University (Muncie, IN). She has worked as an adjunct faculty member at Ivy Tech Community College and remains actively involved in the community college sector. Her research interests include the lived experiences of community college students and faculty and visual methods and methodologies in higher education. Community college faculty perceptions and experiences of their students' mental health was the focus of one of her recent inquiries and will inform this session.
Irene Lopez-Robles
Vice Chancellor, Student Experience, Pima Community College
Teresa Leyba Ruiz
President, Glendale Community College
Emily Peck
Vice President, Student Services, West Kentucky Community and Technical College
Carmen Shurtleff
Instructor, Sociology and Social Work, Northeast Texas Community College