Higher Education & Organizational Change (HEOC) Student Directory

The HEOC Division is committed to advancing the scholarship, research, and practice of higher education and organizational transformation in the United States and abroad.

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Year Entered Program: 2024 – 2025

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Year Entered Program
2024

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Advisor

Walter Allen

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Elizsanchez@ucla.edu | LinkedIn

Year Entered Program
2024

Student Bio

Specialization

  • Family engagement

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Family Engagement
  • Student Success
  • Community

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

  • M.A. Student Affairs Administration (Michigan State University)
  • B.A. Public Heath (UC Merced)

Publications

Research Centers

Advisor

Cecilia Rios-Aguilar

jadasims@g.ucla.edu | LinkedIn

Year Entered Program
2024

Student Bio

I am a first-year PhD student in Higher Education and Organizational Change with an academic background in African American & Diaspora Studies and Political Science. My graduate coursework spans advanced quantitative and qualitative research methods in higher education. Current projects include a social network analysis of recruitment practices among private colleges and universities, as well as a qualitative case study on faculty racial diversity. I serve on the board of the National Black Student Achievement Association, working to reimagine K-12 support structures for Black and African American students. Additionally, I am a program assistant in institutional advancement for EMEAC, an environmental justice nonprofit focused on personal and public sustainability initiatives.

Specialization

Equity, Access, and Attainment

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

  • Gordon and Olga Smith Fellowship (2024)

Education

  • M.A. Higher Education and Organizational Change (UCLA)
  • B.A. African American & Diaspora Studies (Vanderbilt University)
  • B.A Political Science (Vanderbilt University)

Advisor

Sylvia Hurtado

Year Entered Program: 2023 – 2024

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Year Entered Program
2023

Student Bio

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Education

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Advisor

Linda J. Sax

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Year Entered Program
2023

Student Bio

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Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

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Advisor

Cecilia Rios-Aguilar

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Year Entered Program
2023

Student Bio

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Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

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Advisor

Walter Allen

Eddie R. Cole

joanagranados@ucla.edu | LinkedIn

Year Entered Program
2023

Student Bio

Joana Granados is a Spanish-speaking, first-generation Latina (Mexican and Salvadoran) from Compton, California. Her academic journey has been marked by overcoming systemic barriers, including food insecurity, transportation challenges, and the complexities of living in a mixed-status family. Despite these obstacles, she was among the few from her high school to attend a Research One institution, earning her undergraduate degree at UC San Diego.
After completing her bachelor’s, Joana returned to Compton as a college advisor in student affairs, supporting low-income, first-generation Black and Latina/o/e students. Inspired by their experiences post-graduation, she pursued a student affairs focused master’s degree at the University of Maryland to deepen her understanding of how policies and practices affect diverse student populations.

Although students have been a focus since the beginning of her trajectory, after three years of working with a program designed for Black, Indigenous, and Latina/o/e early career faculty, Joana gained an interest in institutional changes to support their retention in academia. She recognizes that a diverse faculty is crucial in inspiring students of color and fostering an equitable educational pipeline.

At UCLA, her research centers on the intersections of race, class, and generation status in higher education. She aims to translate research into actionable policies that advance socioeconomic mobility for underserved communities and promote a more inclusive academic environment.

Specialization

  • Education pipeline for Latina/o/e groups
  • College access
  • Early-career faculty
  • Faculty intervention models

Teaching and Research Interests

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

  • Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program, 2024
  • Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors Perspective Award, 2022
  • PBS American Graduate Champion, 2016
  • Gates Millennium Scholarship Recipient, 2013

Education

  • B.A. Ethnic Studies & Sociology; University of California – San Diego
  • M.Ed. Higher Education, Student Affairs and International Education Policy; University of Maryland – College Park

Publications

  • Granados, J. (2022). Humanizing Essential Partners in Fraternity and Sorority Houses. Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors Perspective magazine.
  • Granados, J., Huddleston, T. S. (2021). “Near-Peer” Supervision Through Mutual Care, Reciprocal Learning, & Work/Life Blending. Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors Essentials: New Professionals.

Research Centers

Advisor

Sylvia Hurtado

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Year Entered Program
2023

Student Bio

Teaching and Research Interests

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

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Advisor

Kevin Eagan

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Year Entered Program
2023

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Education

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Advisor

Sylvia Hurtado

aishuhan@ucla.edu | LinkedIn

Year Entered Program
2023

Student Bio

Shuhan Ai is a Ph.D. student in the Higher Education & Organizational Change program at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on understanding the career aspirations of undergraduate women in STEM fields. Specifically, she explores how community cultural wealth and information literacy skills influence their STEM career aspirations and motivations. Leveraging quantitative research methods, her goal is to identify strategies that support students’ career development and help institutions create more inclusive pathways for underrepresented women in STEM.

Specialization

  • STEM Education, Career Aspirations, Quantitative Methods

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Women in STEM
  • Community Cultural Wealth
  • Online Education
  • Information Literacy

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

  • Master of Science in Education (M.S.Ed.) in Higher Education, University of Pennsylvania

Publications

Research Centers

Advisor

Kevin Eagan

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Year Entered Program
2023

Student Bio

Teaching and Research Interests

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

Publications

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Advisor

Walter Allen

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Year Entered Program
2023

Student Bio

Teaching and Research Interests

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

Publications

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Advisor

Kevin Eagan

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Year Entered Program
2023

Student Bio

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Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

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Advisor

Walter Allen

Year Entered Program: 2022 – 2023

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Year Entered Program
2022

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Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

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Advisor

Mitchell Chang

Brian Le

ble22@ucla.edu | LinkedIn | Twitter

Year Entered Program
2022

Student Bio

Brian Le (he/him/his) is currently a Ph.D. student in the Higher Education and Organizational Change (HEOC) program at UCLA. Brian holds a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology & health from Iowa State University and a master’s degree in student affairs in higher education from Marquette University. Prior to attending UCLA, Brian worked at Iowa State University for 4 years as a student’s program coordinator for the Science Bound program, a pre-college through college program focused on working with scholars from underrepresented backgrounds to pursue a degree in STEM. He has been a research affiliate on multiple NSF-funded projects surrounding equity in STEM. Brian’s research interests are college access, retention, marginalized students, community colleges, first-generation, STEM education, identity development, and engineering education.

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Identity Development
  • College Access & Retention
  • First-generation college students
  • STEM Education

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

  • 2023, UCLA University Fellowship
  • 2022, UCLA University Fellowship

Education

  • M. Ed. Educational Policy & Leadership Studies, Marquette University
  • B.S. Kinesiology & Health, Iowa State University

Publications

  • Le, B.D., Rodriguez, S.L., & Espino, M.L. (2021). Family Matters: An Asset-based Approach to How Families Shape Engineering Identity for Community College Students. Journal for Applied Research in Community Colleges.
  • Espino, M., Rodriguez, S., & Le, B. (2020). A Systematic Review of Literature: Engineering Identity and Students with Financial Need in Community Colleges. Community College Journal of Research and Practice.
  • Rodriguez, S.L., Espino, M.L., Le, B.D., & Cunningham, J.K. (2020). The influence of policy implementation in the Midwest: How an SSTEM program broadens participation and enhances engineering identity for community college students. Education Policy Analysis Archives.

Research Centers

  • Momentum: Accelerating Equity in Computing and Technology

Advisor

Linda J. Sax

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Year Entered Program
2022

Student Bio

Teaching and Research Interests

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

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Advisor

Eddie R. Cole

David U. Vargas

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Year Entered Program
2022

Student Bio

David Vargas is a first-generation Ph.D. student in the Higher Education & Organizational Change program at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Jiquilpan, Michoacan, Mexico.

His research interests include Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Justice (EDIJ) in Higher Education, College Access, and First-Generation College Students. He is currently interested in looking at the strategies Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) implement to serve their diverse Latine communities, moving away from one-size-fits-all resources and monolithic understandings of Latinidad.

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Experiences of students of color in higher education
  • Latina/o students in STEM fields
  • Community college transfer students, and first-generation first-year students at R1 institutions

Education

  • Human Development & Family Studies B.S.
  • Spanish B.A.

Advisor

Sylvia Hurtado

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Year Entered Program
2022

Student Bio

Diana Torres (she/her) is a Ph.D. student in the Higher Education and Organizational Change program at UCLA. A native of Riverside, California, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Education and Sociology from UC Riverside. Diana currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI), where she contributes to evaluation and strategic planning efforts. She previously worked as a Data Fellow at The Education Trust, focusing on labor market outcomes for marginalized student groups. In addition, she has held teaching assistant positions for introductory R programming, statistics, and undergraduate research courses. Diana’s research centers on college affordability and economic mobility, with a specific focus on sub-baccalaureate credential earners. As the proud daughter of Mexican immigrants, she draws from her personal experience to understand the challenges faced by Latino immigrant families, fueling her dedication to breaking down barriers and advancing social mobility through education.

Teaching and Research Interests

  • College Affordability
  • Student Loan Debt
  • Labor Market Outcomes
  • sub-baccalaureate Credentials

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

  • Cota Robles Fellowship Recipient

Education

  • MA, Higher Education and Organizational Change, UCLA
  • BA, Education and Sociology, UC Riverside

Publications

Research Centers

  • Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI)

Advisor

Ozan Jaquette

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Year Entered Program
2022

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Teaching and Research Interests

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

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Advisor

Mitchell Chang

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Year Entered Program
2022

Student Bio

Teaching and Research Interests

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

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Advisor

Sylvia Hurtado

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Year Entered Program
2022

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Walter Allen

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Year Entered Program
2022

Student Bio

Passion Lord is a Ph.D. student in the Higher Education and Organizational Change program at UCLA. She is a first-generation college graduate and L.A. native. She is passionate about recruitment, retention, and persistence of underrepresented communities. Her research currently focuses on how social media influences prospective students to enroll at an institution. Passion has used her business background in many of her professional and volunteer experiences in the education sector. She was a part-time instructor through LMU’s Campus Awareness Resource Education Services, where she taught freshmen and transfers sexual assault prevention, anti-racism, and cross-cultural dialogue. Passion developed and reassessed a program, which facilitates the transition, engagement, and retention of first-year Black students at Loyola Marymount University. She engaged and worked collaboratively with other departments and programs on campus to address diversity, equity, and inclusion for Black students by providing advocacy and support.

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Student Recruitment, Retention, and Persistence
  • Social Media
  • Black Studies
  • Intersectionality

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

  • B.A Integrated Marketing Communication, Pepperdine University
  • M.A Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration, Loyola Marymount University (LMU)
  • M.A Higher Education and Organizational Change, UCLA

Publications

Research Centers

  • UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center

Advisor

Walter Allen

Year Entered Program: 2021 – 2022

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Year Entered Program
2021

Student Bio

Teaching and Research Interests

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

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Advisor

Cecilia Rios-Aguilar

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Year Entered Program
2021

Student Bio

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Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

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Advisor

Walter Allen

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Year Entered Program
2021

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Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

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Advisor

Cecilia Rios-Aguilar

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Year Entered Program
2021

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Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

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Advisor

Ozan Jaquette

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Year Entered Program
2021

Student Bio

Teaching and Research Interests

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

Publications

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Advisor

Cecilia Rios-Aguilar

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Year Entered Program
2021

Student Bio

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Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

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Advisor

Walter Allen

Karla Aguilar Marquez

klaguilar@g.ucla.edu | LinkedIn | Twitter

Year Entered Program
2021

Student Bio

Karla has developed and implemented various primary prevention strategies and survivor support efforts across several institutions, organizations and communities. She’s served as a prevention educator, community case manager, sexual assault/domestic violence victim advocate and various leadership positions in student affairs. Her advocacy is grounded in intersectionality and trauma-informed frameworks, ancestral knowledge and community wisdom. Identity and community are critical components of her activism, indigeneity, resilience and joy. She is an incoming first-generation Ph.D. student in the Higher Education & Organizational Change (HEOC) program at the UCLA School of Education & Information Studies.

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Campus sexual and relationship violence
  • Student resilience & healing
  • Intersectionality
  • Indigenous methodologies and practices in higher education

Education

  • Master of Social Work, Community Organization, Planning and Administration (COPA), University of Southern California
  • B.A. Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside
  • B.A. Anthropology, University of California, Riverside

Publications

  • Palacios, N., & Aguilar, K. (2017). An Empowerment-Based Model of Sexual Violence Intervention and Prevention on Campus. In J. C. Harris & C. Linder (Eds.), Intersections of identity and sexual violence on campus: Centering minoritized students’ experience. essay, Stylus Publishing.

Advisor

Jessica C. Harris

London Williams

londonw@mcdb.ucla.edu | LinkedIn

Year Entered Program
2021

Student Bio

London Williams is passionate about supporting minoritized undergraduate students in higher education spaces, particularly those majoring in STEM. London currently serves as a Program Coordinator for the UCLA-HHMI Pathways to Success Program and is also an instructor for a year-long course that supports diverse groups of students throughout their first year of college (UNIV ST 15). Coalescing her interests in education and psychology, London’s current research interests have been significantly shaped by instances of grief and loss experienced by both herself and the many students she works with. London is passionate about doing mixed methods research and utilizing Black Feminist Thought, as well as, critical, counter-hegemonic approaches that not only highlight diverse student voices, but also contribute to the transformation of STEM environments and aid in creating safe and brave spaces to build communities of care, subsequently, fostering STEM persistence, flourishing, and healing.

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

  • 2023, University Fellowship
  • 2022, Luskin Center for History and Policy Research Grantee
  • 2022, Rising to the Challenge Research Grantee
  • 2022, SPSSI Essay Contest Graduate Student Winner
  • 2022, University Fellowship
  • 2021, Dean’s Student Advisory Council (DSAC) Stipend

Education

  • M.A. Higher Education and Organizational Change, UCLA
  • M.A. Developmental Psychology and Evaluation, CGU
  • B.A. Psychology, UNC-Chapel Hill

Publications

Advisor

Kevin Eagan

Ngoc Tran

ntran27@ucla.edu | LinkedIn

Year Entered Program
2021

Student Bio

Ngoc Tran is a Ph.D. student in the Higher Education and Organizational Change division at the University of California, Los Angeles. Through her research, she aims to identify practices in teaching, research training, and mentorship that can advance the academic achievement and career outcomes of first-generation students of color pursuing terminal degrees. Moreover, she is interested in examining what first-generation students of color and their communities of origin can earn, gain, and lose as students pursue higher education through a socioeconomic, ethical, and cultural lens. Previously, Ngoc served as the Assistant Director of Equity and Inclusion Initiatives at Stanford University. In this role, she directed two summer research programs while leading school-wide academic support initiatives and graduate admissions outreach efforts to increase the access to educational opportunities, sense of belonging, and retention of minoritized students in the School of Engineering.

Education

  • M.Ed., Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration, University of Vermont
  • B.S., Social Work, The Ohio State University

Advisor

Kevin Eagan

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Year Entered Program
2021

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Cecilia Rios-Aguilar

herdtimo@g.ucla.edu | CV | LinkedIn | Website 

Year Entered Program
2021

Student Bio

Tim Herd is currently a fourth year PhD Candidate and Wasserman Fellow in the Higher Education & Organizational Change (HEOC) program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research examines university governing boards, student success, race, and affirmative action.

Outside of his studies, Tim is also serves in the capacity of a creative consultant that partners with different non-profits and other organizations around the areas of governance, culture, and student success. Tim also is the founder of two organizations, Rising Black Men and the Grosse Pointe Black Alumni Association, the latter in which he currently serves as President/CEO.

Specialization

  • University Governance, Student Success, Race

Teaching and Research Interests

  • University Governance
  • Race & Ethnicity
  • Student Success

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

  • Wasserman Dean’s Fellowship, UCLA 2021
  • Graduate Dean Award, UCLA 2021
  • Penn GSE Merit Award

Education

  • University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)
  • Michigan State University (MSU)

Publications

  • Warren, C.A., & Herd, T. (2022). Perspectives on Teacher Empathy with Diverse Learners. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781138609877-REE139-1
  • Herd, T. Choosing your role models wisely. (2nd Ed), Men to men. Discovery House.
  • Herd, T. Understanding Black UCLA Student Response to Proposition 209
  • Warren, C.A., Wellborn, C.P. Herd, T. Teacher Beliefs about Race, Empathy, and Black Boys: REDACTED 2.0

Advisor

Eddie R. Cole

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Year Entered Program
2021

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Advisor

Cecilia Rios-Aguilar

Xiong Her

xher21@g.ucla.edu | CV | LinkedIn 

Year Entered Program
2021

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Mitchell Chang

Year Entered Program: 2020 – 2021

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Year Entered Program
2020

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Sylvia Hurtado

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Year Entered Program
2020

Student Bio

Specialization

  • N. Angie Jaimez Noel is a Ph.D. student at UCLA examining the impact of philanthropic dollars on institutional transformation and organizational change, with a focus on disrupting systemic racism inherent within educational institutions, nonprofits, and for-profit sectors.

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Sylvia Hurtado

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scamille@g.ucla.edu | LinkedIn

Year Entered Program
2020

Student Bio

Camille Smith is an institutional researcher and PhD student in the Higher Education and Organizational Change program at UCLA. She received her masters from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in Higher Education with a concentration in Institutional Research. Her work in higher education focuses on collecting, analyzing and sharing data about higher education students, institutions and the efficacy of the institution’s programs, to support decision-making, planning and policy formation within the institution. Much of her work in these roles has focused on quantitative research that identifies outcomes associated with various diversity, equity and inclusion programs and initiatives at both the undergraduate and graduate education level, in both student and academic affairs departments, with the goal of creating more equitable higher education institutions. She particularly enjoys conducting research that aids in the construction of higher education environments that facilitate learning, development and success, particularly of historically underserved students.

Specialization

  • institutional research; quantitative research on learning, development and success of historically underserved students

Teaching and Research Interests

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

Education

  • BA, Communication – concentration in Interpersonal and Organizational Communication, University of Southern California, 2015
  • MA, Higher Education – concentration in Institutional Research, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2020

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Advisor

Kevin Eagan

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Year Entered Program
2020

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Advisor

Walter Allen

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Year Entered Program
2020

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Advisor

Cecilia Rios-Aguilar

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Year Entered Program
2020

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Advisor

Linda J. Sax

John Yang (Johnnie)

johnniey47@ucla.edu | LinkedIn

Year Entered Program
2020

Student Bio

Hello cyber surfers, my name is John Yang (you can also call me Johnnie Yaj, pronounced as ‘Yah!’ in my native Hmong language) and I grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. I enjoy rollerblading, spoken word poetry, Super Smash Bros, plant-based foods, and yoga. I also love to travel and explore new cities, communities, and cultures. If you would like to strike up a conversation about any of these topics, I am all yours!

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Diversity/Homogeneity
  • Rural Students
  • Hmong Americans
  • Asian Americans
  • Assessment

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

  • 2022 APIA Scholars Applied Research Fellowship Program ($5,000) | Washington, DC
  • 2020 The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship | New York, NY
  • 2017 J.W. and Nellie N. MacDowell Scholarship ($5,000) | Los Angeles, CA
  • 2017 S.P.A.R.K.S. Foundation Scholarship ($2,000) | Los Angeles, CA
  • 2014* Gates Millennium Scholarship (Full-tuition scholarship, BA, MA, PhD) | Fitchburg, WI
  • 2014 UCLA Lambda Alumni Scholarship ($4,000) | Los Angeles, CA
  • 2014 Herb Kohl Scholarship ($1,000) | Janesville, WI
  • 2014 UW-Madison PEOPLE Scholar (Full-tuition scholarship, BA) | Madison, WI

Education

  • BA World Arts and Cultures, UCLA Class of 2018
  • MA Higher and Postsecondary Education, Teachers College, Columbia University Class of 2020

Publications

  • Yaj, Johnnie. (2019). The Invisible Labor of UCLA Southeast Asian Student Organizations: Investigating the Work that Goes Behind Enacting Diversity. Aleph, UCLA Undergraduate Research Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 16.

Research Centers

Advisor

Kevin Eagan

Year Entered Program: 2019 – 2020

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Year Entered Program
2019

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Jessica C. Harris

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Year Entered Program
2019

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Advisor

Cecilia Rios-Aguilar

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Year Entered Program
2019

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Advisor

Cecilia Rios-Aguilar

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Year Entered Program
2019

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Advisor

Jessica C. Harris

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Year Entered Program
2019

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Kevin Eagan

Year Entered Program: 2018 – 2019

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Year Entered Program
2018

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Patricia McDonough

Karen Hunter Quartz

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Year Entered Program
2018

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Mitchell Chang

Year Entered Program: 2017 – 2018

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Year Entered Program
2017

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Advisor

Patricia McDonough

Gadise Regassa

gregassa@g.ucla.edu

Year Entered Program
2017

Student Bio

Gadise Regassa is a fifth-year doctoral student in the Higher Education and Organizational Change program and is working on her dissertation research around academic burnout, anti-black racism, and the pandemic. During her first four years at UCLA, Gadise worked as a Graduate Ambassador for the Graduate Division Diversity, Inclusion, and Admissions Office, co-founded an academic support group for Black women graduate students, and was a graduate researcher for an EDI and Spencer-funded youth participatory action research project called UCLA BEST. In addition to being a student, Gadise works on the side as an Educational Consultant and just finished a project with Youtube. Before starting her doctoral program, Gadise worked as a Program Administrator for the NYU Center for Multicultural Education and Programs, received her Master’s from The Ohio State University in Higher Education and Student Affairs, and graduated with honors from UCSB with a degree in Black Studies and Sociology.

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Critical Qualitative Methods
  • Race/Racism
  • College Burnout

Education

  • M.A., Higher Education and Student Affairs, The Ohio State University
  • B.A., Black Studies and Sociology, UCSB

Research Centers

  • UCLA Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences
  • UCLA CHOICES

Advisor

Walter Allen

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Year Entered Program
2017

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Advisor

Walter Allen

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Year Entered Program
2017

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Advisor

Ozan Jaquette

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