The Faculty are award-winning & highly regarded around the nation for cutting edge research and pedagogy reflecting a diverse array of disciplines and specialties. They actively research and publish articles and books that address the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, ability, class, etc.

Director, Matrix Center; Co-director, Women’s and Ethnic Studies (WEST);
& Professor, Sociology & WEST, UCCS

Specializes in ethnic & racial studies, gender, sexuality, the dynamics of privilege and oppression, whiteness, masculinity, and right wing extremism.

Founder and Director, White Privilege Conference; Director of Diversity, The Bush School,
Seattle, WA

Educator and motivational speaker on: Sports & Kids, African American males, Education, Diversity and Privilege, Segregation vs. Integration, White Teachers Dealing with Diversity and White Privilege, The ‘N’ word, and Body Image.

Senior Consultant, Diversity Services, Matrix Center; Asst. Professor, Women's & Ethnic Studies, UCCS.

Specializes in race, gender, sexuality, and social justice curriculum development; conducts seminars/consults locally, nationally, and internationally on the processes of integrating diversity and building inclusiveness.

Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Science & Professor, Department of Communication, University of Colorado-Denver

Research and teaching areas are diversity, teamwork, self-empowerment, presentational speaking, organizational & group communication, and computer-mediated communication.

Associate Professor of History, UCCS

Specializes in Mexican, Latin American and Latino History, Mexican citizenship, urban politics, and popular culture in the 19th & 20th centuries, and race, class & gender in the U.S.

Professor of Literature, UCCS & Co-Director, WEST

Poet and author of contemporary Latin American fiction, Scholar of U.S. Minority writing, with a specialization on Latino/a literature and post colonial Caribbean literature concentrating on the Cuban Diaspora.

Research Assistant, Gerontology, UCCS & Ph.D.

Candidate in Sociology, Syracuse University Research interests include social inequality, power, sociology of health and mental health, critical race theory, gender and transgender studies, and postmodern theory.

Program Assistant, UCCS

Research and presentation topics include multicultural issues in counseling and microaggressions and their cumulative effects on the health of people of marginalized groups.