Lindsay Aust
Membership
The Council on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion is made up of administrators, faculty, staff and students at WSU Vancouver. Members are appointed by the vice chancellor for academic affairs from a pool of candidates. Prospective new members may nominate themselves or be nominated by others annually, usually in March, in response to an open call for nominations.
The student diversity intern is selected through a competitive, university-wide application process, usually during the spring semester.
Ezequiel Coleman Gutierrez-McCann
Desiree Hellegers
Desiree Hellegers is director of the Collective for Social and Environmental Justice. Her books include "No Room of Her Own: Women’s Stories of Homelessness, Life, Death and Resistance” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and “Handmaid to Divinity, Natural Philosophy, Poetry and Gender in Seventeenth Century England” (University of Oklahoma 2000). Her research/creative interests include environmental justice literature, oral history, social movements, civil liberties, neoliberalism, playwriting, poetry and creative nonfiction. She is a member/producer of the Old Mole Variety Hour collective on Portland’s KBOO radio.
Nayeli Lopez-Martinez
Adenike Otoikhian
Adenike Otoikhian teaches general and organic chemistry. She serves as a faculty mentor for the Critical Literacy Achievement and Success Program. In that role, Otoikhian supports retention of low-income, first-generation and underrepresented students through one-on-one mentoring. Otoikhian earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Portland State University and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Oregon Health and Science University. She is a published author of several scientific articles that have been well cited by scientists around the world.
L. Rocío Sotomayor
L. Rocío Sotomayor teaches math and probability classes in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and has been involved in Latino educational and health services since 2012. At WSU Vancouver, Sotomayor has served in different organizing committees at the Student Diversity Center, and has collaborated with the Latin@ Student Association. Stotomayor holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Finance from the University of Alberta in Canada, a master’s degree in Mathematics from IMPA in Brazil, and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from PUCP in Perú.
Jose Vazquez
Jose Vazquez was born in rural Oaxaca Mexico and educated in Mexico City where he completed a B.Sc. in Condensed Matter at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Azcapotzalco) and M.Sc in High Energy Physics at CINVESTAV, then granted a scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in London UK in Research Techniques in Physics (1992). Vazquez spent time as a postdoc in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and after residing in San Juan (Puerto Rico) teaching in public and private universities, Vazquez came to the Northwest where he has been teaching physics. Vazquez is currently working on observational astronomy and is an instructor of Physics and Astronomy at WSU Vancouver.