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    Christie Chung, PhD

    Executive Director, Mills Institute
    Professor of Psychology

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    Lynn Santopietro, MA

    Associate Director of Programs
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  • Lisa Arellano

    Lisa Arellano, PhD

    Associate Director of Research
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    Dyana Curreri-Ermatinger, MA

    Grant Writer
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    Jennifer Arthur

    Executive Assistant
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  • Camille Kluttz-Leach, JD, PhD

    Board Secretary
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Faculty and program leads

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    Javarte Bobino, PsyD

    Upward Bound Program Director
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    Mayra Guevara

    Mills Educational Talent Search Program Director
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  • Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera

    Miguel Fuentes-Cabrera, PhD

    Hellman Experiential Science Faculty Lead
    Associate Teaching Professor
    Computational Physicist
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    Jane Yamashiro, PhD

    Research Justice at the Intersections Program Co-Lead
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    Mozzie DosAlmas, PhD

    Research Justice at the Intersections Program Co-Lead
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    Maria Matta Ortiz, MS

    Trailblazers Program Lead
    Assistant Director, Housing and Residential Life
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Research Advisory Group

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    Libby Adler LLM

    Professor of Law and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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    Laura Green PhD

    Associate Dean of Teaching, Learning, and Experiential Education; Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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    Régine Michelle Jean-Charles PhD

    Director of Africana Studies, Dean’s Professor of Culture and Social Justice, and Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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    Brinda Mehta PhD

    Mills College Germaine Thompson Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Program Head, Transcultural Francophone Studies & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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    Kirsten Saxton, PhD

    Director Humanities Center Oakland , Northeastern University
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    Marilyn Schuster PhD

    Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emerita in the Humanities (Study of Women & Gender) and Provost and Dean of the Faculty Emerita (Smith College)
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    Suzanna Danuta Walters PhD

    Professor of Sociology; Professor and Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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    Dana Wright EdD

    Professor of Education Abbie Valley Professorship in Education
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Faculty Affiliates

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    Sahar Abi-Hassan, PhD

    Assistant Professor of Political Science, Mills College at Northeastern University
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    Oliver Ayers, PhD

    Associate Professor in History at Northeastern University London, and London Director of Northeastern’s Humanities Center
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    Natalee Kēhaulani Bauer, PhD

    Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies

    Writing Group

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    Rasika Bhalerao, PhD

    Assistant Teaching Professor
    Board member, Climate Change AI
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    Susan Ito, MFA

    Assistant Teaching Professor Robert J. and Ann B. Wert Endowed Chair
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    Cliff Lee, PhD

    Professor of Education and program director of the Educators for Liberation, Justice and Joy (ELJJ) teacher education program at Mills College at Northeastern University.
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    K.J. Rawson, PhD

    Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Director of the Humanities Center
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    Saiph Savage, PhD

    Assistant Professor and Director of the Civic A.I. Lab at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University
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    Jessica Staddon, PhD

    Professor of the Practice, Privacy/Safety/AI
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    Laney Strange, PhD

    Director of Broadening Participation, Director for Teaching Faculty – Boston, Teaching Professor
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    Alec Stubbs, PhD

    Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy and Oakland Politics, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE) Program Coordinator
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    Dakuo Wang, PhD

    Associate Professor, Khoury College of Computer Sciences College of Art, Media, and Design
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    Lucy Williams, JD

    Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration
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Advisory board

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    Christie Chung, PhD

    Executive Director, Mills Institute
    Professor of Psychology

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    Beth Kochly, PhD

    Interim Dean of Mills College at Northeastern
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    Carrie Maultsby-Lute, MBA

    Head of Partnerships, Northeastern Oakland Campus
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    Jane Amidon, MLA

    Vice Provost of Network Programs
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    Ronald Sandler, PhD

    Director of the Ethics Institute
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    Carla Brodley, PhD

    Executive Director of the Center for Inclusive Computing
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    Tina Eliassi-Rad, PhD

    Joseph E. Aoun Professor of Computer Sciences
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Our Team

Location

Mills Hall, Office 128
5000 MacArthur Boulevard
Oakland, CA 94613-1301
510.430.3232

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