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The AAHHE Graduate Students Fellows Program is designed to prepare Latina/o/e/x doctoral scholars for successful careers in academia and administration.
Continuing our FFP Highlights with Dr. Anthony Peña, an Asst. Prof. of Environmental & Science Education at Cal Poly Pomona. His work bridges critical pedagogy, science, & environmental education through an interdisciplinary lens. ¡Felicidades!
Read more about Dr. Peña here: bit.ly/4n2aNHr
Hola! wanna get involved with AERA Latinx Leadership? Now’s your moment! We’ve got open positions & we’re looking for passionate folx ready to lead.
More info: Dr. Rachel Gomez at gomezr3@vcu.edu
Deadline: Oct 20, 2025
Seguimos con GSFP highlights with Geidy Mendez, a first-gen Guatemalan & PhD candidate in Political Science at UC Irvine. Her research explores the relationship between resentment & political behavior among Latin American migrants in the U.S. Felicidades!
Read more about Geidy here: bit.ly/4q99rxt
So proud of you, Armando! We love to see it! 🔥
10.10.2025 22:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This feature hits different. 🤎 Gracias to @theeduledger.bsky.social for shining a spotlight on me, my work, fellow scholars, and the heartfelt efforts we all share to humanize the academy.
10.10.2025 21:58 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0Let’s gooo 🙌🏽 felicidades, Armando!! So well deserved.
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Armando Lizarraga's (@alizarraga310.bsky.social) supporters say his research as a doctoral candidate in educational leadership and policy at The University of Texas at Austin offers valuable insights into the intersection of incarceration, gender, and student debt. #RisingGraduateScholars
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We’re continuing our GSFP highlights with Armando A. Rijo, a first-gen Latiné scholar and Doctoral Candidate at @JacksonStateU. His research explores how Cultural-Greek orgs foster growth and belonging. Congrats, Armando!
Read more about Armando here: bit.ly/4n4oHcf
I’m honored to be featured as a Rising Graduate Scholar in this issue of Diverse Issues in Higher Education. I am grateful to everyone who made this possible, especially to my community, which pushes me every day to keep doing the work I do.
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Continuing our highlights with Eleanor “Ellie” Estrada, a jota activist-scholar & first-gen Ph.D. candidate in Communications at the University of Utah. Their work centers Latine/x discourse in chisme, brown trans rhetorics & barrio urbanism. Congrats!
Read more about Ellie here: bit.ly/4nRjINn
The AAHHE Faculty Fellows Program kicked off its first meeting last Friday. We are excited for what’s ahead with this amazing group of colegas.
Not everyone made it into the picture, but trust us, it was a full house.
FFP highlights continue with Dra. Marjoris Regus, Asst. Prof. of Music Education at Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick. Her work centers on culturally responsive pedagogy, reggaetón, & the bicultural/bilingual experiences of AfroCaribbean music students.
Read more about Dra. Regus here: bit.ly/3IGMyAm
We continue our GSFP highlights with Jeremy A. Rodríguez Vargas, a PhD student in Chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras from Ponce, PR. His research focuses on developing antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anticancer drugs. WEPA!
Read more about Jeremy here: bit.ly/42aITS4
We continue our GSFP highlights with Tabatha Cruz, a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, in Higher Ed. Her dissertation will explore student experiences in Puerto Rican higher education institutions. Congratulations, Tabatha.
Read more about Tabatha here: bit.ly/469zFba
FFP highlights siguen con Dr. Sergio A. Gonzalez, Asst. Prof. of Higher Ed at the Univ. of Pittsburgh. His research centers QTPOC experiences in education, shaped by Jotería Studies, Women of Color Feminisms & Queer of Color critique. Felicidades!
Read more about Dr. Gonzalez here: bit.ly/3IfChew
Our FFP highlights continue with Dr. Carmen Serrata, an Asst. Prof. of Higher Education at UNC Charlotte. Her research focuses on postsecondary experiences of marginalized students & family roles across the P–20 pathway, using asset-based approaches.
Read more about Dra. Serrata: bit.ly/4pfA8QF
Continuing our GSFP highlights with Omar Sánchez, a bilingual Mexican American first-generation PhD student in Kinesiology at The Ohio State University. His research centers on equity in adapted physical education and childhood obesity. Congrats, Omar!
Read more about Omar here: bit.ly/3I0XicJ
Continuing our FFP highlights, meet to Dra. Annette Beauchamp, Asst. Prof. in Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Minnesota. Her work focuses on intercultural & Latina/o education & how it informs the professions. Felicidades!
Read more about Dra. Beauchamp here: bit.ly/4naya1Q
Wrapping up our award highlights with the Elementary, Secondary & Post-Secondary Award, congratulations to Dra. Courtney Luedke, Associate Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago.
Felicidades, Dra. Luedke.
Continuing our highlights, meet Kelly Andrade, a 1st-gen Brazilian American & PhD candidate at Rutgers University. She studies how Latine students navigate financial aid to examine access to higher education.
Parabéns, Kelly!
Read more about Kelly here: bit.ly/4mEL5JD
Continuing with our Faculty Fellow highlights, meet Dr. Michelle Soto-Peña, Asst. Prof. in Early Childhood Studies at Cal Poly Pomona. Her research focuses on Ethnic Studies and bilingual education, emphasizing anti-racist and ancestral pedagogies.
Read more about Dra. Michelle here: bit.ly/420Irpl
Continuing our highlights, meet Jessica Stamp, a Ph.D. candidate at Howard University. Drawing on her Cuban and Panamanian roots, Jessica's research explores servingness of Black students at predominantly Black institutions.
Read more about Jessica here: bit.ly/3UIsP61
Our Faculty Fellows Highlights begin with Dr. Mónica Baldonado-Ruiz, Asst. Prof. of Literacy at San Diego State University. She promotes liberatory literacy and culturally sustaining pedagogy through her research and advocacy.
Read more about Dra. Mónica here: bit.ly/41IbxK0
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We’re muy excited to kick off our GSFP highlights with Yanira, a proud Puertorriqueña & Bronx native whose leadership, scholarship, & philanthropy advance equity in higher education. Felicidades, Yanira!
Read more about Yanira here: bit.ly/4mOSl5s
Felicidades to Dra. Marialexia Zaragoza, from the 2022–2023 AAHHE GSFP cohort, on earning her PhD in Higher Education from the University of Pittsburgh!
We are so proud of her accomplishment and her continued support of the GSFP comunidad.
We are thrilled to introduce the 2025–2026 AAHHE Faculty Fellows. We look forward to an incredible year ahead and cannot wait to see all that our fellows will accomplish.
Read more about the fellows here: bit.ly/4mGUKz4
