The following is a list of New Mexico State University Fellows in alphabetical order by cohort year.  You can email the fellows directly if you would like to contact them. 

1998 Cohort

    email: edarella@nmsu.edu
 Eduardo C. Arellano, Jr.                               

Hometown: 

• El Paso, TX                               

Degrees Earned:         

• B.A., Political Science, University of Texas at El Paso
• M.P.A., University of Texas at El Paso

Career Goals:

•  Higher Education Administration, Teaching and Research

Research Interests:    

• Higher education community development projects—Assessment and Best Practices
   
 

Hometown: 

• El Paso, TX
  

Degrees Earned:       

• B.S., Education, University of Texas at El Paso
• M.P.A., University of Texas at El Paso

Career Goals:           

• To write, train, consult, lecture and work on policy issues in education,
  with an emphasis on higher education and equity issues. Also interested
  in writing/publishing poetry, short fiction and children’s books.
  

Research Interests:   

• Impact of private sector and philanthropic funding on higher education.
   
   
   

        email: racheort@nmsu.edu
Rachel Ortiz                                                  

Hometown:  

• El Paso, TX
                                                

Degrees Earned:      

• B.A., Commercial Art, Texas Woman’s University 
• M.A., Human Resources Development and Management, Webster University

Career Goals:             

• To assist in bringing change in community colleges

Research Interests:    

• Advanced Technology Center development; Community College policy issues;
  sex roles in education
   

  email: marielro@nmsu.edu
 Mariela Aimé Rodríguez                                       
                                                

Hometown: 

• Brownsville, TX
  

Degrees Earned:          

• B.A., Our Lady of the Lake University at San Antonio
• M.Ed. (Reading), University of Texas at Brownsville
• M.Ed. (Educational Administration), Our Lady of the Lake University

Career Goals:

• Public school administrator, university professorship in educational leadership,
  and educational consultant

Research Interests:

•     Standardized test bias affecting minority students, Gender, leadership styles
      and successful performance
   

1997 Cohort

     email: janetayl@nmsu.edu
 Dr. Janelle Taylor García                                   

Hometown:  

• Albuquerque, NM

Degrees Earned:        

• B.S., Elementary Education/minor in Bilingual Education, University of New Mexico 
• M.A., Elementary Education/Bilingual/Multicultural emphasis, University of New Mexico

Career Goals:               

• Plan to be a public school administrator and aspire to obtain a superintendent;
  become active in state politics as an elected official; university teaching
  

Research Interests:   

•   Female administrators and leadership; Hispanic female superintendents.

       email: luquinon@nmsu.edu
 Dr. Luis "Nacho" Quiñones                               

Hometown:  

• Bayard, NM
                                                  

Degrees Earned:        

• B.A., Journalism, New Mexico State University
• M.A., Teaching, Western New Mexico University
   

Research Interests:   

• To work with students, parents, teachers, administrators, and community organizations tohelp dismantle the institutionalization of racism in our schools
   
   
   

email: bquinto@nmsu.edu
 Dr. Bonavita B. Quinto                                                
 

Hometown:  

• Taos, NM
  

Degrees Earned:           

• B.A. Communicative Disorders and Spanish (dual)
• M.A., Spanish

Career Goals:                

•  To serve as a community college administrator, ultimately as vice-president
   or president of a community college

Research Interests:     

•  Hispanic women as community college administrators, specifically presidents,
   vice-presidents, chancellors and vice-chancellors.
   
   
   

email: quiz@dtrx.com
 Dr. Fernando Zapata Quiz                                         

Hometown: 

• Del Rio, TX
  

Degrees Earned:          

• B.A., Southwest Texas State University
• M.Ed., Sul Ross State University

Career Goals:                

• To attain an educational administrative position that will allow me to be an agent
  of change.

Research Interests:     

• Leadership styles/qualities of Mexican-American school principals along
  the Texas-Mexico border.
   
   
   

email: quiz@dtrx.com
Dr. Miriam Muñiz Quiz                                                   
                                                         

Hometown: 

• Del Rio, TX
  

Degrees Earned:          

• B.S., Pan American University
• M.Ed., Sul Ross State University

Career Goals:                

• To obtain an educational administrator leadership position

Research Interests:     

• School boards in the border region/Texas
  
  

  email: not available
Dr.  Michelle R. Valverde                                               
                                                        

  Hometown: 

• Deming, NM
                                                                                       

Degrees Earned:          

• B.A., Sociology, University of Arizona-Tucson
• M.S.W., Management & Planning, University of California at  Berkeley

Career Goals:         

• To become a leader in the movement to make our public schools more responsive
  and effective for all children.

Research Interests: 

• Policies that positively impact Latino high school completion; preservice
  administrators’ attitudes towards: diversity,  Latino students,
  Valued youth (at-risk students)

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