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Diverse Champions

A Purpose-Driven Life

Dr. Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher is the 2022 recipient of the Diverse Champions Award.

Rising Graduate Scholars

An Outside-the-Box Thinker

When Nathaniel Hudson was growing up in the early days of the computer, he enjoyed tinkering with technology and playing video games for hours. But he didn’t know computer science could be a career for him until he took a high school class on web design.

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Finding Representation as First Gen. Graduate in Isolating STEM Fields

When Matthew Culberson realized as an undergraduate at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) that he wanted to be a chemistry professor, he immediately scoured the college’s website to find a Black chemistry professor.

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Marching to a Healthier Tune

As a Mexican-American woman pursuing a doctorate, Nancy Uriegas often reminds herself that she does, in fact, belong in academia.

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Committed to Giving Back

Melissa Wheeler was propelled toward her doctorate by a professor once telling her that “statistically, you are not supposed to be here,” so she pursued not only a master’s degree in counseling psychology but is now a fourth-year doctoral candidate.

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A Difference Maker

For Bryan Jenkins, pursuing his doctorate was about broadening his horizons. He received his bachelor's degree in accounting and his master’s degree in health administration

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An Inquiring Mind

In her Ph.D. research, Rhondene Wint combines wet lab experimentation with computational methods. She points out that her current research investigates the genetic basis of neurogenesis.

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Working Toward Equitable Higher Education

Quatez Bernard Scott has been working in higher education for almost a decade, mostly in multicultural and student affairs. His current position is intercultural specialist at the Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center at Wright State University.

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A Scholar for Our Time

Born in New York and raised in Puerto Rico, Luis Miguel Mestre’s educational trajectory was changed by Hurricane Maria in 2017.

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A Change Agent

Angie Le’s hunger for knowledge has led her across the globe, from Vietnam to South Korea, and finally to Florida International University (FIU), where she expects to receive her Ph.D. in public affairs in summer 2022.

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Studying Race and Place

Pamela Zabala has used her experiences as an undergraduate at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, to inform her research and scholarship as she pursues her Ph.D. in sociology at Duke University.

2022

Bridging Nations

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