Initiatives Team

HSI Staff & Leadership Committee  |  Initiatives Team  | Co-PIs, Partners & Collaborators

The Initiatives Team members work on the day-to-day implementation of our grant-funded programs and services.

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Cultivamos Excelencia

• Valeria Alonso Blanco Transfer Coherence Analyst valonsob@ucsc.edu	Estrella Arteaga Organiz Graduate Pathways Coordinator esdartea@ucsc.edu	Saskias Casanova Assistant Professor, Psychology  scasanov@ucsc.edu
  Francia Cruz Silva Cultivamos Excelencia Program Coordinator fcruzsil@ucsc.edu	Dave Gordon Associate Director of Transfer Partnerships dalegord@ucsc.edu

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CULTURA

• Rebecca Covarrubias HSI Servingness Lead rebeccac@ucsc.edu	Grant Hartzog Health Professions Pathways Lead hartzog@ucsc.edu	Xiomara López Latiné Servingness Lead xielopez@ucsc.edu

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GANAS Career Pathways

• Nandini Bhattacharya Continuing Lecturer, Mathematics nandini@ucsc.edu	Natalie Davis Supplemental Instruction (SI) Coordinator nahdavis@ucsc.edu	Eliana Duran GANAS Career Internship Coordinator eduran4@ucsc.edu
  Shelby Graham Careers in the Creative Economy, Course Instructor sgraham@ucsc.edu	Pedro Morales-Almazan Teaching Professor, Mathematics pmorale5@ucsc.edu

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GANAS Graduate Pathways

• Lora Bartlett Associate Professor, Education lorab@ucsc.edu	Jaime Cortes Associate Director of the Writing Center jcorte41@ucsc.edu	Kathleen Gutierrez Assistant Professor, History gutierrezk@ucsc.edu
  Jennifer Horne Associate Professor, Film & Digital Media jenny@ucsc.edu	Marcia Ochoa VOCES Faculty Advisor oaksprov@ucsc.edu	Juan Poblete FYE Coordinator and Instructor, Literature jpoblete@ucsc.edu