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Wilfredo Alvarez

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Wilfredo Alvarez, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Nayeli Sanchez

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Nayeli Sanchez is the Academic and Student Success Specialist for the Immigrant Services Program at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Victor Mata

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Victor Mata is the Student Success Specialist for the Immigrant Services Program at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Roberto De Mata

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Roberto De Mata, M.A. serves as the Project Manager for the SpaceTech Scholars Program at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Felix Flores

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Felix Flores, Ph.D., serves as an associate professor of the Marketing Department at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Manuel Del Real

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Manuel Del Real, Ph.D., serves as the Executive Director of Hispanic Serving Institution Initiatives and Inclusion at Metropolitan State University of Denver. His areas of expertise include HSI/Minority Serving Institutions, diversity, equity & inclusion, Greek-letter organizations, civic engagement, Title V grants, and National Science Foundation grants. His professional focus is centered around culturally responsive pedagogy and curriculum.

Del Real is the assistant vice president of membership for The Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institution Educators. He is also the co-founder of the Colorado HSI Consortium and is the current president of the Colorado Coalition for the Educational Advancement of Latinxs. He has presented at a panel at the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) conference and facilitated the 2021 Sigma Lambda Betas International Fraternity Inc.’s Virtual Leadership Institute.

Before joining MSU Denver, Del Real was an adjunct faculty member in Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University.

Del Real earned his Doctorate in Education with a focus on higher education and social justice from Iowa State University, Master of Arts in higher education with a focus on diversity in organizations and Bachelor of Arts in French, Psychology, and Spanish from the University of Denver.

Ilana Oliff

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Illana Oliff, M.A., serves as the director of clinical education at the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Department at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her areas of expertise include gender-affirming voice care, aphasia, cognitive-communication changes resulting from injury or aging, late language emergence (late talkers), speech- and- language therapy , spanning age groups, from pediatric to geriatric. Oliff holds a license in Speech Language Pathology, in addition to certifications in Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers, CPR, and AED. She also holds a Certificate of Clinical Competency from the American Speech Language and Hearing Association.

In addition to her teaching, Oliff contributes to the American Speech Language Hearing Association as a continuing- education materials developer. She developed the Augmentative and Alternative Communication Practice Portal on the ASHA’s webpage. She also submitted a publication titled, “Using Principles of Motor Learning to Treat Apraxia of Speech after Traumatic Brain Injury” in the Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology.  

Before joining MSU Denver, Oliff served as a bilingual speech-language pathologist providing services in both English and Spanish at Speech and Health LLC.  

Oliff earned her Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education and Teaching from the American University. 

Anahi Russo Garrido

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Anahi Russo Garrido, Ph.D. is an associate professor, department chair and director of the Gender Institute for Teaching and Advocacy (GITA), at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Their research and teaching have focused on transnational sexualities, gender and sexuality in Latin America, queer and feminist theory and social justice organizing.

Russo Garrido is the author of “Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship and Sex in Queer Mexico City,” which investigated the transformation of intimacy in Mexico City in the lives of three generations of women participating in queer spaces. They are also the co-editor of “Building Feminist Movements and Organizations” and has published articles on queer Mexico City in the Journal of Lesbian Studies and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, among other journals. Their new research project focuses on the ways in which some advocates utilize contemplative practices to support racial justice activism. This new project contributes to current discussions on queer and feminist care, queer and trans ecologies and racial justice activism.

They earned a doctorate in Gender and Women’s Studies from Rutgers University, and postdoctoral fellowships at Carleton College and Brandeis University.

Alfredo Sanchez

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Alfredo Sanchez, M.S., is an associate professor in the Journalism and Media Production Department at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Arturo Jimenez

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Arturo Jimenez, J.D., is an affiliate professor in the Chicana/o Studies; and Criminal Justice and Criminology Departments at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

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