Speaker: Dr. Cecilia Suarez
Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Education and Communication, University of Florida
Watch it on YouTube.
Thursday, September 16, 2021
2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8)
Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom.
University of Florida
Biography: Dr. Cecilia E. Suarez serves as Assistant Professor of Leadership and Intercultural Communication at The University of Florida in the Department of Agricultural Education and Communication. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Miami and majored in biology and elementary education, a Master of Science in Education from Miami University of Ohio, and a PhD from The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Education Policy Studies. Dr. Suarez also serves as a faculty affiliate for the Center for Latin American Studies, the Education Policy Research Center, Faculty-in-Residence for Hispanic Latino Affairs, Café Latino executive board member, and as the inaugural faculty president of the Latinx Staff and Faculty Association at The University of Florida. She focuses her courses on identity development, ethics, social justice, access and equity, as it relates to leadership, and has also given a TED talk on self-worth and internal validation. Her research focuses on the application of culture to leadership theory and praxis, and highlights ways in which leadership education can impact and connect communities equitably and justly via cultural relevancy and critical pedagogy.
For more information, email Dr. Joann Mossa at mossa@ufl.edu