Good afternoon everyone! The Mentoring@Purdue (M@P) Program will hold its 4th annual Invited Lecture Series during March 7-8, 2017. For the Invited Lecture Series, we invite nationally recognized scholars and practitioners in the fields of mentoring, diversity and inclusion, and creating climates of success for URM students. This year, M@P will host Dr. Erika Camacho of Arizona State University. Dr. Camacho grew up in East Los Angeles and was taught by Jaime Escalante at Garfield High School. She received her B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Wellesley College in 1997. After earning her Ph.D. in applied mathematics at Cornell University in 2003, Dr. Camacho spent a year as a postdoctoral research associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She then held a tenure-track faculty position at Loyola Marymount University before joining the faculty at ASU in 2007. She was a 2013-2014 MLK Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has co-directed various summer research programs, dedicated to the recruitment of undergraduate women, underrepresented minorities, and those that might not otherwise have the opportunity. Her leadership, scholarship, and mentoring have won her many national and regional recognition including the SACNAS Distinguished Undergraduate Mentoring Award, the Hispanic Women Corporation National Latina Leadership Award, one of 12 Emerging Scholars by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, one of the 40 Hispanic Leaders Under 40 Award, the Victoria Foundation Higher Education Outstanding STEM Award, the ASU Faculty Women's Association Outstanding Faculty Mentoring Award, and many more. Her national service is exceptional and ranges from mentoring to Associated Editor for the journal of Bulletin of Mathematical Biology to Board member for SACNAS and many other advisory boards. She has been profiled and featured in multiple media outlets including Univision Nightly Spanish News in a two-part segment entitled "Erika Camacho's Inspirational Story", the SIAM News "The Intersecting Lives of Two Mathematicians in East L.A.", in three SACNAS News Feature Articles "Leadership", "Building Confidence", and "Fixing the Leaky Faucet: A Discussion on Women of Color in STEM with Children", Latino Perspectives Magazine "Camacho stands and delivers", and Voces magazine "I am the American Dream: Erika Tatiana Camacho, Ph.D.". She has been interviewed on CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News as part of a segment in honor of her high school teacher Jaime Escalante and in PBS Arizona Horizonte for her HWC Leadership Award. Dr. Camacho's passion is to continue the work and legacy of her mentors: to create opportunities for those individuals from marginalized communities and make graduate education attainable to them through intensive research. Dr. Camacho will host two workshops - one for faculty and staff and one for graduate students. The graduate student workshop, "Insights to Success Before, During, and After Graduate School Through My Story," will be on Tuesday, March 7th from 5:00pm-6:00pm in Whistler Hall, Room B008. The faculty and staff workshop, "Intentional and Strategic Mentoring," will be on Wednesday, March 8th from 10:30am-11:30am in Pfendler Hall, Room 241. Please see the flyer below, and attached, for descriptions of the workshops. Hope to see you there! [cid:image001.jpg@01D29673.BC795780] On behalf of the M@P team, Dottie Vollmer Master's Student Purdue University College of Agriculture Youth Development and Agricultural Education 765.585.1609 _______________________________________________ Mentoring_at_Purdue mailing list Mentoring_at_Purdue@lists.purdue.edu https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/mentoring_at_purdue