In this episode we transform the ¿Qué pasa, HSIs? microphone into a brown table talk with one of our favorite HSI leaders Dra. Cynthia Olivo, who is the 10th president of Fullerton College. Dra. Olivo’s career spans nearly three decades, serving in many roles including Assistant Superintendent and Vice President of Student Services at Pasadena City College and Associate Director of Admissions and Student Recruitment at California State University, San Bernardino. In this plática we learn about how she has served as a champion for equity and academic excellence for students, how she has worked towards organizational change, poco a poco, with minor tweaks, and how culture, ceremony, and celebration are core tenets of her leadership. She also shares best practices for coalition building across racial-ethnic groups as informed by an organization she co-founded, The Coalition. Throughout our plática Dra. Olivo shares her personal history as the granddaughter of migrant farmworkers, the daughter of a single mother, a first-generation college student, and a third-generation Chicana who went from EOP student to college president.
Guest: Cynthia Olivo (She, Her, Ella), Presidenta, Fullerton College
Social Media: @drcynthiaolivo
APA Citation:
Garcia, G.A. (Host). (2024, April 7). Brown Table Talk with President Olivo. (No.406) [Audio podcast episode]. In ¿Qué pasa, HSIs?. https://www.ginaanngarcia.com/podcast/306
Attachments / Show notes:
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Lessons in Grassroots Leadership
Sac State Using Student Voices to Transform HSIs
Navigating AANAPISI & HSI Dual Designation
Elevating Managerial Professionals & Support Staff in Servingness
HSI NOW: Advancing Servingness in Wisconsin
Confessions of a Critical Friend to HSIs
Honoring the Past & Strategizing for the Future
Linguistic Servingness at HSIs
The Making of an Intentional HSI: Cabrillo College
Streetwise Epistemology and Servingness
Spaces of Empowerment: HSI Student Equipos
Learning with RESISTE: STEM Servingness Research
Advocacy for Undocumented Students at One Emerging HSI
Working with Pre-college Students and their Communities as Servingness
Embodying Servingness: UCR Chicano Student Programs
Disrupting Racialized Cisheteropatriarchy in Math Classrooms for Servingness
Anti-Blackness at HSIs
Enacting Servingness in the Northeast
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