Board of Directors

Executive Committee Officers (Elected Annually)

AAHHE Chair

Victor B. Saenz, PhD
Professor & Chair
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy

Executive Director, Project MALES
The University of Texas at Austin

Patrick Valdez

Chair-Elect

Patrick L. Valdez, PhD
Former Chancellor & Professor
University of New Mexico ~ Taos

Immediate Past Chair
Patricia Arredondo, EdD
President, Arredondo Advisory Group

Treasurer

Carmen Martinez-López, PhD
Dean School of Business and Professional Careers
Westchester Community College
State University of New York

Treasurer-elect
Azara Santiago Rivera, PhD
Professor and Coordinator, Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology
Felician University

Board Secretary and Executive Director
Lucia Gutierrez, PhD
Association Executive
AMC Source

Edna Acosta-Belen, PhD

2021-2024
Distinguished Professor Emerita
Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latino Studies

Edward Delgado-Romero, PhD

2021-2024
Associate Dean & Professor
University of Georgia

2019-2022

Vice President
Community Engagement & Diversity Initiatives

Nevada State College

Claudia Garcia-Louis, PhD
Faculty Member at Large
2021-2023
Assistant Professor
University Texas, San Antonio

Aurora Kamimura, PhD

2019-2022

Lecturer and Fellow
Washington University in St. Louis

Gloria P Martinez-Ramos, PhD
2021-2024
Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center

for Diversity and Gender Studies

Director of Latina/o Studies Program
Texas State University

2019-2022

Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies

Associate Dean for Faculty
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
California State University, Fullerton

Monique Posadas, MA Anthropology

Graduate Student Member at Large
2021-2023

Assistant Director
McNair Scholars Program
California State University Fullerton

Cristobal Rodriguez, PhD
2021-2024
Associate Dean
Equity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement
Arizona State University

James Rodriguez, PhD
2021-2024
Dean
School of Social Sciences and Education
California State University, Bakersfield

Julian Vasquez Heilig, PhD
2021-2024
Dean and Professor
Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation
University of Kentucky