FAIM Leadership
Contact the FAIM Leadership Team at FAIM@cornell.edu.
Cornell Graduate School Contacts
Sara Xayarath Hernández
Associate Dean for Inclusion and Student & Faculty Engagement
Equity in Graduate Education Consortium Institutional Liaison & Steering Committee
Cornell University – Graduate School
Office of Inclusion & Student Engagement
384 Caldwell Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Colleen M. McLinn, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Professional Development
Equity in Graduate Education Consortium Institutional Liaison
Cornell University – Graduate School
Office of Career and Professional Development
143 Caldwell Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Janna Lamey
Associate Dean for Graduate Student Life
Cornell University – Graduate School
Office of Graduate Student Life
143 Caldwell Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Cornell Provost’s Office of Faculty Development & Diversity Contacts
Yael Levitte, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity
Office of Faculty Development & Diversity
122 Day Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Cornell Scholar/Practitioner Partner
Evelyn Ambrìz, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar
Latina/o Studies
434 Rockefeller Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
External Partners
Our external partners include Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership Program leadership at Purdue and Montana State Universities as well as previous members of the FAIM Leadership Team from the Provost’s Office of Faculty Development & Diversity at Cornell University.
Kevin Gibson, Ph.D.
Assistant Vice Provost for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars
Professor of Botany and Plant Pathology
Director and PI of the Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership Program
Sweeney Windchief, Ed.D. (Assiniboine)
Professor of Adult & Higher Education
Co-PI of the Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership Program
Montana State University
College of Education, Health and Human Development
Department of Education
Gabriela E. Vargas, Ph.D.
Assistant Provost for Faculty Development
Tufts University
Former Cornell FAIM Leadership
Equity in Graduate Education Consortium
Cornell University is a member of the Equity in Graduate Education Consortium, which brings together change-ready universities, graduate programs, and leaders to align policies and practices with commitments to equity and inclusion. EGE makes social science of equity in graduate education accessible, and builds supportive, sustainable infrastructure for change
The EGE Consortium is an initiative within the Equity in Graduate Education Resource Center led by faculty directors at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education Pullias Center for Higher Education and the Rochester Institute of Technology College of Science.