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Our Team

Carrie Saetermoe

Principal Investigator
Research Enrichment Co-Director
HERE Center Founder
Professor of Psychology
carrie.saetermoe@csun.edu

Gabriela Chavira

Lead Principal Investigator
Student Training Co-Director
Professor of Psychology
gchavira@csun.edu

Crist Khachikian

Principal Investigator
Lead of the Administrative Core
crist.khachikian@csun.edu

Gilberto Flores

Student Training Co-Director
Associate Professor of Biology
gilberto.flores@csun.edu

Patty Kwan

Principal Investigator
HERE Center Director
Senior Research Fellow
& Associate Professor of Public Health
patty.kwan@csun.edu

Angie Guan

Co-Investigator, Research and Enrichment Core
Associate Professor of Child & Adolescent Development
angie.guan@csun.edu

Nelida Duran

HERE Center Director
Associate Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences
nduran@csun.edu

Judith Lin

Senior Research Fellow

Lisa Chaudhari

HERE Center Director
Lecturer of Health Sciences
lisa.chaudhari@csun.edu

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Alina Adamian

Director of STEM Education and Advisement Specialist
alina.adamian@csun.edu

Jose (Josey) Hugo Vargas

Methodologist
jose.h.vargas@csun.edu

Sungmin Moon

Senior Research Fellow

Mirranda Salas

Director of Operations and Finance
mirranda.salas@csun.edu

Cathy Smith

BUILD Program Assistant
cathy.smith@csun.edu

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Amber Bui

HERE Center Operations Manager
amber.bui@csun.edu

Melanie Shaw

Student Training Mentoring Coordinator
melanie.shaw@csun.edu

Patricia Escobedo-Junkermeir

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Sol Lopez

Webmaster & Graphic Designer

Claudia Toledo Corral

HERE Center Director
Associate Professor of Health Sciences
claudia.toledo-corral@csun.edu

Elizabeth Gutierrez

Badge Project Coordinator
start.office@csun.edu

Critical Race Theory Advisory Group

The BUILD PODER Critical Race Theory Advisory Group was formed to move CRT more directly into our institutional change through consultation on BUILD PODER’s Fall conference, by moving our mentor training more directly in line with CRT tenets, by working through university initiatives to encourage adoption of CRT tenets in curriculum, RTP, and other means of changing our university culture to become more aware and reactive to racism and other forms of oppression on campus.

Carrie Saetermoe

Principal Investigator
Program Director – Research Enrichment Co-Director 
HERE Center Co-Director
Professor of Psychology

Dimpal Jain

 

Dolores Delgado-Bernal

Professor
Department of Chicana(o)/Latina(o) Studies & Charter College of Education
CSULA

Douglas Kaback

Director - Neighborhood Partners in Action
Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing
Lecturer - Department of Theatre

José Paez

Full-Time Lecturer
Department of Social Work

Octavio Villapando

 

Que-Lam Huynh

Associate Professor of Psychology

Stevie Ruiz

 

Tracy Lachica Buenavista

Professor
Asian American Studies

Will Garrow

Will Garrow

 

LOCAL STEERING COMMITTEE

The BUILD PODER Local Steering Committee meets semi-annually to discuss program progress and evaluation, future directions, and optimizing programmatic resources to meet student goals. The committee consists of two members from the National Institutes of Health, two off-campus experts, and the PIs for BUILD PODER. Invaluable insights and suggestions are garnered from our Local Steering Committee meetings and the BUILD PODER PIs are grateful to our off-campus members of the LSC.

Desirée Salazar

Program Director at National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Diane Adger-Johnson

 

Danny Solorzano

Professor of Social Science & Comparative Education
Director of the Center for Critical Race Studies
Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, UCLA

Dr. Britt Rios-Ellis

Founding Dean, College of Health Sciences and Human Services, CSUMB
Former and Founding Director, NCLR/CSULB Center for Latino Community Health, Evaluation, and Leadership Training

Gabriela Chavira

Principal Investigator
Student Training Co-Director
Professor of Psychology

Carrie Saetermoe

Principal Investigator
Program Director – Research Enrichment Co-Director
HERE Center Co-Director
Professor of Psychology

Crist Khachikian

Principal Investigator
Lead of the Administrative Core

Evaluation Team

 

Andrew Ainsworth from CARE and the Center for Research Evaluation (CARE) at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss)

For more information, visit CARE website.

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