Diversity and Inclusion Impact Awards Program

THE INAUGURAL

Diversity and Inclusion Impact Awards Program and Luncheon FEBRUARY 22, 2022 12:00-2:00 PM KROC INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE, CONFERENCE ROOMS C/D 5998 ALCALÁ PARK SAN DIEGO, CA 92110

The Inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Impact Awards The Inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Impact Awards recognizes a faculty and staff member from the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Leadership and Education Sciences and Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering. Awardees were nominated and selected for their outstanding contributions and exceptional leadership in advancing diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice on and off-campus. All awardees have provided exemplary service to the University community, worked tirelessly to support students and have demonstrated a sustained commitment to making the University of San Diego a more diverse, equitable and anti-racist institution.

This awards program celebrates their numerous contributions and expresses the University's gratitude and appreciation for their sustained commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice.

2022 Award Recipients Reyes Quezada, '83 (MEd), EdD Sarina Molina, '10 (EdD) Odesma Dalrymple, PhD Rhonda Harley, MS Jesse Mills, '04 (MA), '08 (PHD) Pauline Berryman Powell, MA

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Order of Events 12:00 p.m.

Arrival

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Opening Remarks Vice Provost, Regina Dixon-Reeves, PhD

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Lunch

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Origin of the Award Farrah Karapetian, MFA

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Provost's Remarks Provost, Gail F. Baker

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President's Remarks President, James T. Harris III

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Presentation of Awards by President and Provost

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Closing Remarks Vice Provost, Regina Dixon-Reeves, PhD

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Faculty Award Recipient School of Educational Leadership and Education Sciences

Reyes Quezada, '83 (MEd), EdD, is professor and Chair of the Department of Learning and Teaching in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences. Dr. Quezada’s research centers on cultural proficiency, equity, family-school and community engagement, international education and education of migrant farmworker students and families. He has published 5 books and 15 book chapters on cultural proficiency, migrant students, recruitment of faculty of color, equity and family engagement and internationalization of higher education. He has published 35 articles and Guest Edited 5 theme journal issues — Journal of Multicultural Education, the Catholic Education Journal, Teaching Education and Teacher Education Quarterly. He is the President of the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education, a board member on the national accreditation agency of the Association of the Advancement of Educator Preparation. He was on the board of directors for the Council of Educator Preparation Programs, the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education, and was Chair of the Global Diversity and Multicultural Committee.

He is the Past Chair of the International Council for the Education of Teachers, and was President of the California Council on Teacher Education, and is the current Editor for the journal, Teacher Education Quarterly. He received the University of San Diego Professorship Award in 2020 and 2007 and the Latino of the Year Award from the Northside Impact Committee.

While these are scholarly examples of Dr. Quezada’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, his students and junior faculty speak of his tremendous mentorship. He actively involves students in research projects and encourages them to present their work at conferences and in peer-reviewed journals. He freely shares his community contacts with other faculty members and helps them to develop deep relationships with community partners. He is highly regarded as the quintessential colleague, thought partner, confidante, advisor and cheerleader.

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Staff Award Recipient School of Educational Leadership and Education Sciences

Sarina Chugani Molina, ‘10 (EdD), serves as Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Education in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences (SOLES). Dr. Molina has committed her professional life to amplifying the experiences of students with under-represented identities navigating institutional systems. She is being recognized for her work to decolonize English-language curriculums and preparing teachers to work with non-English speakers.

She is also being recognized for organizing and facilitating book clubs and other discussion groups where robust conversations are centered around diversity and inclusion topics.

She has over 25 years of experience working with marginalized and underserved communities of students including migrant, immigrant, refugee and international students. Dr. Molina has experience working in multiple settings from international schools abroad to private schools, community colleges, community-based programs and institutions of higher education in the United States. She has trained teachers globally in China, India, Japan, Kenya, Thailand, Singapore, the United States and Mexico by designing and developing online and onsite teacher education programs and seminars.

Dr. Molina has published numerous articles in the areas of language education, lesson study, action research, and teacher development from constructivedevelopmental, socio-cultural, ecological and critical perspectives. She has authored a book on working with multilingual users of English entitled, Linguistics for teaching English in multilingual classrooms: An introduction to fundamental concepts with practical strategies (2013); a textbook on English language pedagogies and practices entitled, Teaching English in local and global contexts: A guidebook for beginning teachers in TESOL (2014); and co-authored, Family, School, Community Engagement and Partnerships (2015). She has also published numerous articles in the areas of English language education, transnational language teacher identity and teacher development. She is working on a forthcoming book on English Language Education and Social Inequality in the Indian context with colleagues that will be published by Routledge.

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Faculty Award Recipient Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering Odesma Dalrymple, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the ShileyMarcos School of Engineering (SMSE) at the University of San Diego, where she strongly believes that education equity is a key mechanism for ensuring just social growth and development. As a trained engineering education scholar, Dr. Dalrymple’s professional and service work is focused on transforming engineering education and its public image; making it more inclusive and socially connected.

This mission is partially actualized through her research that seeks to identify, develop and evaluate tools, techniques and pathways that can facilitate deep learning and sustained interest in engineering and other Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math fields (STEAM), particularly for populations that have been historically under-represented in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) workforce in the United States.

Dr. Dalrymple is considered an invaluable member of the SMSE community. She has served as the faculty lead of the Engineering Exchange for Social Justice which facilitates stakeholder team formations that engage in an exchange of expertise leading to the co-creation of just solutions to socio-technical challenges identified by community partners. She has co-developed and co-maintained three successful STEAM education outreach programs serving underrepresented youth and communities in the San Diego area —STEAM TEAM Academy, the STEAM Youth and Community Conference and STEAM Labs. Dr. Dalrymple also serves as the chair of the SMSE Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Action Committee where she partners with Advancing Students Forward to develop a waste upcycling business with students from Colonia Tecolote. She also partners with the San Diego Blind Community Center facilitating engagement between USD engineering students and low-vision or blind community members in user-centered engineering design courses.

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Staff Award Recipient Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering Rhonda Harley, MS, serves as the Interim Senior Director of the Career Development Center for the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering (SMSE). Ms. Harley’s impactful leadership has and continues to positively impact the USD community through her numerous contributions in supporting students in career related activities and mentoring students of color at USD. While her position supports all students, she is particularly sensitive to the needs of Black students in engineering. As one of the few Black faculty and staff within the SMSE, Ms. Harley consistently leads with compassion, innovation and authenticity to ensure the holistic success of her students.

Ms. Harley has spent 14+ years supporting students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines with a focus on those who are women, racially diverse, financially disadvantaged and/or first-generation students. Ms. Harley is the advisor to the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) chapter who recently won the USD Outstanding Chapter of the Year for the 2020-2021 academic year. As an advisor to NSBE, Ms. Harley dedicates copious amounts of time in ensuring students are engaging in enriching experiences that support their leadership and professional development.

She has attended national conferences with students and has mentored them through activities that strengthen their leadership and networking skills. She is also a founding member of the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Action (IDEA) team within the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering as well as a member of the executive leadership team for the Black Employee Alliance.

She successfully defended her dissertation in February of 2022 and will be graduating this spring with a Ph.D. in Leadership Studies from the School of Leadership and Education Sciences (SOLES). Her research focus is on the robust and rich ways Black students in SMSE access and activate their cultural capital during their collegiate journey at USD.

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Faculty Award Recipient The College of Arts and Sciences

Jesse Mills, ‘04 (MA), '08 (PhD), is an Associate Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department in the college of Arts and Sciences. His teaching, research, artistic and activist work focuses on Black liberation, immigration and refugee studies, social movements, Indigenous decolonization and anti-racist philanthropy.

In San Diego’s Somali community, the primary site for his research, Dr. Mills has served as an organizer, advocate, ESL teacher, youth mentor, educational consultant, organizational advisor and community member.

Dr. Mills teaches introductory and advanced courses in comparative ethnic studies and African American Studies. His courses emphasize interdisciplinary inquiry in cultural studies, ethnography and historiography centered on community service learning. Dr. Mills has shaped the learning outcomes and rubric for student learning and has ensured that Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice are now part of the foundation of USD’s core curriculum, by connecting it to the Catholic Intellectual Tradition.This is significant because it impacts every undergraduate student at USD. Dr. Mills sees changemaking as bottom-up equity and justice work in the community and also as transformative decolonizing internal work within oneself.

Professor Mills believes that for change to be successful, it must start from the bottom, stay grounded in the bottom, and work its way up. It means that the perspective of those who are affected by the issue at hand must be centered by those administering the change so that the impact is made on a larger scale. Dr. Mills currently serves as the Board of Directors chairperson for the United Taxi Workers of San Diego. The main goal of this group is to assist San Diego taxi drivers, the vast majority of whom are immigrants and refugees from places such as East Africa, with improving their work conditions and economic standing. Often these men and women are the victim of unfair business regulations, discrimination and harassment.

Recently, the city of San Diego passed legislation lifting the cap on permits that allows drivers to become owners of their own taxicab business. It was a major victory for driver-led equity and justice changemaking.

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Staff Award Recipient The College of Arts and Sciences

Pauline Berryman Powell, MA, serves as Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. She has dedicated her career to creating a more inclusive and equitable university campus for first-year, low-income, former foster youth students, transfer students and students with disabilities. Her determination, purpose and passion to give back to underserved communities have made her a formidable champion for all students, but particularly for those students who are struggling to feel at home at USD, including many students from marginalized backgrounds.

A native San Diegan, Powell obtained her undergraduate degree in International Studies and graduate degree in Leadership Studies from Azusa Pacific University. As a first-generation student, she has the lived experience of the underrepresented student and is able to provide a personal perspective on what it takes to be academically successful.

Powell has developed numerous programs and services that promote holistic success for underrepresented students, including co-founding the USD Black Student Resource Center, which leads retention, persistence and recognition programs for students of African American descent. She serves as the co-chair of the college’s Diversity Postdoctoral Program which brings Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) scholars to USD for a two-year teaching postdoctoral fellowship. The program has brought many talented BIPOC scholars to USD. Under Powell’s guidance and mentorship, five of the program’s postdocs have transitioned to become tenure-track members of USD’s faculty. Powell oversees the Dean’s Academic Stability Fund, which helps students in need with unexpected costs of attendance, such as books and supplies.

Powell has been honored with the Trailblazer Administrator Award at the Black Graduate Recognition Ceremony (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018); Woman of Impact Award (2021); Community of Human Resources (CHR@USD) Employee Recognition Award (2021); and as part of the Executive Leadership Team for Black Employee Alliance, she was honored with the CHR@USD Team Recognition Award (2021). Powell leads with care, empathy and a strong dedication to create spaces, programs and initiatives for underrepresented students’ identities to be seen, amplified and celebrated.

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Diversity and Inclusion Impact Awards Committee CAROLINE BAILLIE, PHD Professor, Integrated Engineering, Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering Academic Director of Masters of Engineering for Sustainability and Health PAULINE BERRYMAN POWELL, MA (Recused from deliberation) Assistant Dean, College of Arts and Sciences CHRISTOPHER CARTER, PHD Assistant Professor, Theology and Religious Studies, College of Arts and Sciences Assistant Chair & Department Diversity Officer, Theology and Religious Studies JOSEPH LATHAN, PHD Professor of Practice, School of Leadership and Education Sciences Director of Online Programs for Learning and Teaching YI SUN, PHD Professor, History, College of Arts and Sciences Director Asian Studies FARRAH KARAPETIAN, MFA Assistant Professor, Visual Arts, College of Arts and Sciences

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Letter from the Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion It is with great pleasure that the Center for Inclusion and Diversity co-sponsors the Inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Impact Awards Luncheon.

We celebrate the faculty and staff who are being honored for their contributions to make USD a more diverse and inclusive community.

We encourage all the members of our community to be inspired by the awardees and to commit to do more individually and collectively to ensure that USD lives up to her mission, vision and values to be an inclusive community of leaders and learners who are prepared to change the world through their teaching, scholarship, service and activism.

Congratulations again awardees!

Center for Inclusion and Diversity Staff Kristina Garland, Special Assistant Laneé Battle Johnson, Executive Assistant Alandra Sánchez, Graduate Assistant Natalia Richard, Undergraduate Research Assistant

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The Office of the President The Office of the Provost The Center for Inclusion and Diversity The Diversity and Inclusion Impact Awards Committee