Title with Advance at UNM:Leadership team memberYour background in academia:Dr. Melissa Emery Thompson received her PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University in 2005 and arrived at UNM as a postdoctoral fellow in 2008. She is currently Professor of Anthropology and Assistant Vice President for Research. In the Office of the VP for Research, Melissa focuses […] Read More
Title with Advance at UNM: Leadership team member Your background in academia: Dr. Hannah Torres holds a B.S. in Elementary Education from Florida State University and had a career as a schoolteacher before earning an interdisciplinary Masters Degree from Duke University in Coastal Environmental Management. She earned a PhD in Geography and Environmental Science […] Read More
Title with Advance at UNM: Leadership team member and co-investigator with the Advance / FIRST Evaluation Core. Your background in academia: Dr. Sanchez-Youngman is an assistant professor at the UNM College of Population Health with expertise in Latinx mental health disparities intervention research, organizational and systems change, and social and health equity policy. She […] Read More
Sandy Rodrigue Title with Advance at UNM: Program Manager Your background in academia: Sandy Rodrigue has been a staff member at UNM since 2002, first serving as an administrative assistant to the Arts and Sciences Associate Deans. She spent 15 years serving two academic departments as their Department Administrators. It was during her time […] Read More
Title with Advance at UNM: Director of communication and social media Your background in academia: Kate created the Advance at UNM multimedia communication internship program. She is a multimedia communication educator who loves all things technology related. Her bachelor’s degree is in journalism and Spanish and she has a master’s degree in digital journalism […] Read More
Title with Advance at UNM: Leadership team member Your background in academia: Dr. Melanie Moses earned a B.S. from Stanford University in Symbolic Systems, an interdisciplinary program in cognition and computation, and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of New Mexico in 2005. She is currently a professor in the Department of Computer […] Read More
Title with Advance at UNM: Leadership team member Your background in academia: Steven P. Verney, Ph.D., is an Alaska Native (Tsimshian) professor in the department of Psychology at UNM. He strives to increase diversity awareness and training and has developed the department’s Diversity Organization (DO!), a student organization to increase diversity awareness and training […] Read More
Title with Advance at UNM: Advance Director, Co-lead of the the Advance / FIRST Evaluation Core. Your background in academia: Dr. Julia Fulghum is a professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Associate Dean for Faculty Development in the College of Arts & Sciences. She served as UNM’s vice president for research and economic development […] Read More
