Mines DI&A Ambassadors
Program Overview
Mines DI&A Ambassadors program is a strategy used to help meet the requests for diversity and inclusion workshops across campus. Mines DI&A Ambassadors who will take a deeper dive into learning about implicit bias and microaggressions during a nine-week training and certificate program. External consultants equip Mines faculty, staff and students on how to effectively facilitate workshops, and in turn, prepare DI&A Ambassadors as campus facilitators.
meet the ambassadors
Jerilin Brewer
Assistant Director, Admissions
Emma Hollenstine
Undergraduate Student, Chemical Engineering
Lakshmi Krishna
Director, Undergraduate
Research
Amalia Queller
Travel & Reimbursement Administrator, MAPS
Meredith Wirth
Undergraduate Student, Mechanical Engineering
Amanda Davis Senior Learning & Development Specialist, HR
Heather Houlton
Program Manager and Research Analyst, Mines DI&A
Amy E. Landis
Professor, Civil Engineering and Faculty Fellow Mines DI&A
Kelsi Streich
Director, Student Activities, Involvement & Leadership
Lukas Fahle
Graduate Student, Mining
Jessica Keefer
Director, New Student & Transition Services
Jon Leydens
Professor, Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (HASS)
Ariana Vasquez
Post Doc, Trefny Center
Spencer Fretwell
Graduate Student, Physics
Kelly Knechtel
Program Manager, Mines DI&A and Assistant Director, WISEM
Heather Mirletz
Graduate Student,
Advanced Energy Systems
Muthu Vinayak Thyagarajan
Graduate Student, Mining Engineering
Fall 2020 Training Topics
Exploring Implicit (unconscious) Bias
Minimizing Microaggressions
Training Dates
Every Tuesday, October 13-December 15
1:30-4:00 PM
Virtual
Week of fall break, 10/21 instead of 10/20