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Power of Diversity Lecture: Nurture Equity to Diversify Academia, September 14, 2022
Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A
10900 Euclid Avenue Adelbert Hall, Room 109, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7048, United States
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Wednesday, September 14, 2022
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom A
Nurture Equity to Diversify Academia
Reyes-Rodríguez's talk will address how investment in equity initiatives to support Black, Latinx, and Native American Students early in their higher education journey can result in more diverse graduate student, postdoctoral and faculty.
Dr. ├üngel L. Reyes-Rodríguez was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico. Before moving to the mainland to train at Case Western Reserve University, he obtained a bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan. Once at Case, he first participated in the Case Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) and then became a graduate student. His doctoral work focused on studying how Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, spreads through routine immune-cell interactions. He graduated in 2015 with a doctoral degree in Molecular Virology. Following graduation, Dr. Reyes-Rodriguez had a postdoctoral fellowship at Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, in the Department of Neurosciences. His projects related to immune responses to coronavirus infection of the Central Nervous System.
Dr. Reyes-Rodriguez now devotes his time to bringing equity to higher education. He is the Director of the McNair Scholars Program at Cleveland State University. The McNair Scholars Program works with underserved yet smart, talented, and hardworking students, making them competitive graduate school applicants and successful graduate students. Dr. Reyes-Rodriguez's role is to provide these students with a mentorship program, research internships, career development programming, and other services. Program alums enroll in master's and Ph.D. programs.
Dr. Reyes-Rodriguez has been working on supporting equity efforts in graduate education from different roles for almost 15 years. He worked to provide minoritized graduate students at Case with career development and networking opportunities while president of the Minority Graduate Student Organization. He also worked on advocacy, communication, and networking projects for the Lerner Postdoctoral Association at Cleveland Clinic. At Cleveland State, Ángel works on equity initiatives designed to remove systemic barriers faced by minoritized students in higher education. As a result, he was one of Crain's Cleveland Business Magazine 40 under forty honorees in November 2021. His passion for bringing equity to higher education has led him to give talks and lead workshops locally and nationally.
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