Meet the 2021-2022 CLAVE Doctoral Fellows

The Centro de Excelencia at National Louis University serves as the hub for programs and initiatives that advance our work as a community and career-focused Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI).

CLAVE is an acronym for “Colaborando con las Comunidades Latinx para AVanzar en Educación/Collaborating with Latinx Communities to AdVance Education, and its Graduate Student Institute seeks to increase the retention and graduation of Latinx and BIPOC graduate students. This work is supported by the Promoting Post-baccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans (PPOHA) program, a grant from the Hispanic-Serving Institutions Division of the Department of Education.

The CLAVE Doctoral Fellowship is a program within the CLAVE Graduate Institute designed to develop and support a network of promising Latinx and BIPOC doctoral scholars. They are awarded to underrepresented doctoral students at NLU who demonstrate strong potential to become educators, leaders, and scholars at local, state, and national levels. The Fellowships provide significant financial assistance for tuition, individual and group mentoring, and opportunities to teach a graduate level course and/or participate in research in collaboration with a NLU faculty member.

The Centro de Excelencia is committed to serving and supporting these Fellows as they make their mark at National Louis University and in their communities.

We congratulate and are proud to introduce the 2022-2022 CLAVE Doctoral Fellows:

Alison Chandler, Higher Education Leadership, National College of Education

Antonia (Toni) Galán, Teaching & Learning , Disability and Equity in Education, National College of Education

Carolina Zuluaga, Clinical Psychology, Florida School of Professional Psychology

Ellen Wade, Teaching & Learning, Disability and Equity in Education, National College of Education

Gabriela Bergamin, Clinical Psychology, Florida School of Professional Psychology

Linda Peters (Mahdesian), Higher Education Leadership, National College of Education

Octavio Casas, Higher Education Leadership, National College of Education

Susan Taylor-Demming, Higher Education Leadership, National College of Education

Tonishea Jackson, Higher Education Leadership, National College of Education