This session will review UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley’s Contributions To Diversity Statement Guidelines, rubrics, and assessment tools. Participants will engage each other in dialogue about their experiences in applying various pedagogical approaches, research frameworks, and community engagement initiatives that contribute to more equitable, accessible, and inclusive academic environments. The participants will leave with an understanding of how two universities evaluate statements of diversity and equity.

Judith Estrada, Ph.D., is the assistant vice chancellor of the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at UC Santa Cruz. Estrada was born and raised in downtown Los Angeles, where she became conscious of educational and social inequalities at an early age. She publishes and presents nationally on the following themes: bicultural pedagogy, decolonizing methodologies, cultural centers as pedagogical spaces, working across differences, fostering Latinx leadership and sense of belonging, pedagogy of solidarity, and critical bicultural pedagogy. She is the author of Consuming ‘Dora the Explorer’ with a Critical Bicultural Lens (in Darder’s Culture & Power in the Classroom, 2012); Impacts of a Diné Decolonizing Pedagogy on Student Affairs Practitioners (in Davidson, C., & Waterman, S., eds.); Indigenous Education Practices in Higher Education; A series of reflections of Diné elder Larry Emerson and his Indigenizing Impact on our Participation in the Profession (in NASPA Journal).

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