Dr. Luis A. Leyva @LuisLeyvaEdu
Dr. Tiffany Hollis @PhDiva_UNCC
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Being a First Year Professor of Color at a PWI
2018 R.A.C.E. MENTORING CONFERENCE
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Dr. Luis A. Leyva @LuisLeyvaEdu
Vanderbilt University Assistant Professor, Mathematics Education, Department of Teaching and Learning  @LuisLeyvaEdu
Dr. Leyva’s research rests at the intersections of mathematics education, gender studies, and higher education. It is motivated by issues of underrepresentation and social oppression in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) that have largely been explored in terms of sex or race exclusively. His research uses intersectionality, a theoretical perspective and methodology from Black feminist thought that attends to forms of oppression and privilege that marginalized individuals uniquely experience at different intersections of their social identities. More specifically,
Leyva’s scholarship foregrounds the voices and lived experiences of marginalized undergraduate students to understand their strategies in navigating mathematics as a socially exclusionary space as well as developing positive academic identities at intersections of their gender, race, sexuality, and other identities. Leyva examines marginalized students’ STEM educational experiences in two ways. First, he uses narrative analysis to explore how students make meaning of their experiences in building identities shaped by discourses of academic (or mathematical) ability and STEM higher education. Second, conceptualizing identity as developed across time and place, he adopts ethnographic methods to detail institutional and interpersonal influences in undergraduate mathematics classrooms and support programs that shape students’ identities and STEM educational experiences. Such analyses aim to catalyze change in STEM as a white, heteronormatively gendered space and thus broaden opportunities to meet the unique academic and social needs of various marginalized student populations. |
Dr. Tiffany Hollis @PhDiva_UNCC
Coastal Carolina University Assistant Professor, Foundations of Education, Curriculum and Instruction Assistant Professor, Special Education (EBD)  @PhDiva_UNCC
Dr. Tiffany Hollis was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, grew up in Gaffney, SC and is a resident of Charlotte, NC. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from Davidson College and her Master’s degree from Columbia College. Hollis received her Ph. D. in Curriculum and Instruction (Urban Education Concentration) from UNC Charlotte in Charlotte, NC in 2017. She has a clear and strong commitment to diversity, equity, and social justice with over 13 years in the education setting as a social justice educator with a special education background, nine of those years were spent working with students with emotional and behavioral disabilities.
Hollis’s research interests focus on the intersection of trauma, culture, and special education, while focusing on the ecological factors of students who have emotional and behavior disabilities or mental health-related issues. She also focuses on the importance of family-school-community-college partnerships to help youth thrive in the face of risk. Dr. Hollis has written several book chapters, articles, and briefs. She has presented at numerous conferences from Washington, DC to Montego Bay, Jamaica and facilitated professional development workshops for teachers locally, nationally, and internationally including in Jakarta, Indonesia. Dr. Hollis enjoys spending time with family, traveling, writing poetry, advocating for youth, and just enjoying life in her spare time. Dr. Hollis is a spoken word artist in her spare time and loves using creative arts (hip hop, spoken word poetry, dancing, music, theatre, etc.) as a form of therapy for youth and with youth, especially marginalized youth. She enjoys thrifting and looking for deals in her spare time. |
R.A.C.E. MENTORING CONFERENCE 2018
July 13th – 15th, 2018
Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN
WYATT (ROTUNDA) 1930 South Drive, Nashville, TN 37203
CO-SPONSORS: Two co-sponsors: Vanderbilt University and Tennessee State University.
R.A.C.E(Research, Advocacy,Collaboration, Empowerment) Mentoring
The conference will be hosted at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, July 13th – 15th. All sessions will be in the Wyatt Rotunda and rooms on the 3rd floor. We begin at noon on July 13 and end at noon on July 15. We look forward to your attendance. For information on the conference, browse through the website.
Registration
July 13th – 15th, 2018
Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN
WYATT (ROTUNDA) 1930 South Drive, Nashville, TN 37203
CO-SPONSORS: Two co-sponsors: Vanderbilt University and Tennessee State University.
R.A.C.E(Research, Advocacy,Collaboration, Empowerment) Mentoring
The conference will be hosted at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, July 13th – 15th. All sessions will be in the Wyatt Rotunda and rooms on the 3rd floor. We begin at noon on July 13 and end at noon on July 15. We look forward to your attendance. For information on the conference, browse through the website.
Registration