Meet Your Diversity Fellows
DELO (2023-25)
Hello, I am Kyzyl Fenno-Smith (any/all), Associate Librarian in the department of Information Studies, in the University Libraries. I am a white critical race practitioner who has taught, advised, and supported undergraduate and graduate students, including community college students, first year university students, and doctoral students. I have elected to teach in public colleges and universities, because I believe that these institutions should be engines of equity for our students, their families, and their communities. Equity has been central to my work at East Bay, in teaching and advising, as library liaison to the Ethnic Studies, Liberal Studies, Educational Leadership, Educational Psychology, Teacher Education, and Social Work departments, as a department chair, and in faculty governance including as a member of the Faculty Diversity and Equity Committee (FDEC). I am energized to continue my commitment to equity work in the role of Diversity and Equity Liaison Officer (DELO) as well as FDEC chair and as Vice Chair of the Academic Senate.
I look forward to engaging with the multi-talented cohort of Diversity Fellows, and the faculty as a whole, as we work to recruit, mentor, retain, and uplift faculty colleagues who are the most effective educators and advocates for CSUEB’s profoundly diverse students and their communities of origin. In partnership with Faculty Development and the University Diversity Officer, I am deeply invested in making a more inclusive and equitable university.
Diversity Fellow (2022-24)
Hi, I’m Alina Engelman (she/her), I identify as deaf/disabled and was born and raised in Brooklyn in a family of refugees and immigrants. I’m an Associate Professor of Public Health with a special passion for and expertise in deaf and disability-related health disparities. I'm also interested in Global Health as my MPH from Yale included work with deaf Kenyans with HIV. I’m passionate about ensuring that people with disabilities (one in four of us, and one billion worldwide), particularly those with multiple intersecting identities, are recognized as a vibrant part of our campus community as we strive to recruit and retain diverse faculty.
Diversity Fellow (2022-24)
I’m Albert Gonzalez (he/him), a formerly incarcerated high school dropout who grew up in the barrios of Dallas, Texas. I was raised by immigrant working-class parents of Latin American Indigenous and Afro-Latinx heritage. I am an anthropological archaeologist and historian specializing in Indigenous and Latinx studies. I have engaged a diversity of populations through my work over the last two decades, especially marginalized and economically disadvantaged communities of color. My work and my discipline require me to continuously reevaluate my worldview and the modes by which I come to understand and interpret people, drawing me to reckon with my own biases as I encounter them or as they are pointed out by my peers. I look forward to facilitating a similar reflexivity among members of my CSUEB faculty family as we work to diversify our ranks.
Diversity Fellow (2023-25)
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Born and raised in Indonesia, I came to the US for my PhD and joined CSUEB 2013. I am a faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and have taught courses at all levels (freshmen to graduate). I am excited and honored to have the opportunity to serve as a Diversity Fellow and to work with the other Fellows to increase diversity among our faculty and student population.
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Diversity Fellow (2021-25)
Hello, I am Tammie Mosley. I became a Diversity Fellow in July 2021. I am honored to represent the College of Business and Economics (CBE) to serve students, staff, and faculty to improve diversity across our campus. I joined CSUEB’s Finance faculty in 2003, and teach Finance and Real Estate courses. Prior to joining CSUEB, I was a Finance professor at Lehigh University. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business. I have publications in numerous well-respected, academic, peer-reviewed Real Estate and Finance journals including Journal of Real Estate Research, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Housing Research, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and Journal of Portfolio Management. Using my research and background in teaching, I aim to design my courses to help students apply analytical frameworks to model and interpret qualitative concepts to improve their problem-solving skills. I will use my diverse background and upbringing as a means to better student, staff, and faculty experiences at CSUEB.
Diversity Fellow (2023-25)
Born in Ohlone Territory to Filipino (Tagalog & Ilocano) immigrants, my journey has taken me from physiology (UCLA) to public health (George Washington University) to nursing (UCSF and UC Davis) in classrooms, clinical settings, public health organizations, harm reduction organizations, and organizing spaces. I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Nursing at California State University, East Bay, where I teach Community Health Nursing, Community Engagement, and Epidemiology and Social Inequities. I am the MSN Program Coordinator, co-chair the department's Dismantling Racism in Nursing Education Task Force with Dr. Alicia Swartz, and I convene the university's Indigenous Acknowledgement Collective. I am a member of the editorial board of the journal Teaching and Learning in Nursing and a member of the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education's (NCORE) National Advisory Council. Anti-imperialist futures free from exploitation and other forms of violence guide my teaching, service, scholarship, and organizing.
Former Diversity Fellows
DELO (2021-23)
Greetings! My name is Christina Chin-Newman (she/her/hers). I’m a Professor in the Department of Human Development and Women’s Studies. As the DELO (Diversity and Equity Liaison Officer), I am excited to be working closely with the Faculty Diversity Fellows and the Director of Faculty Development on diversifying faculty hiring and improving retention and advancement of diverse faculty. In my multiple roles as DELO, Chair of FDEC (Faculty Diversity and Equity Committee), Vice Chair of the Academic Senate, and co-leader of the Disability Justice Working Group, I am committed to working with my colleagues from across campus toward dismantling institutional racism, sexism, ableism, and other forms of oppression. As a Chinese American educator who does not wish to be complicit in perpetuating the “Model Minority” myth, one of my priorities is to work toward equity for groups which have been directly harmed by the “Model Minority” myth - primarily Black Americans, but also including Southeast Asians. A developmental psychologist by training, I am a former community college instructor who has studied creativity and the arts, transfer students, and college students with disabilities or accommodation needs.
Diversity Fellow (2021-23)
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Hi, y’all. I’m Diana K. Wakimoto (she/her/hers). I’m multiracial, Yonsei (4th generation), and of Japanese/German/Danish heritage. I am a Librarian (equivalent rank to Full Professor) at Cal State East Bay and am excited and honored to be the Diversity Fellow for the College of Education and Allied Studies and the University Libraries. I am also a mother of a multiracial preschooler and partner to another academic librarian. I am passionate about ensuring equitable access to library materials, including building diverse and inclusive collections, improving communication within and between the Library and the rest of the campus community, and helping to increase the diversity of our faculty and also retaining our amazing faculty colleagues. I’m especially passionate about ensuring that multiracial/mixed race faculty, staff, and students can share our lived experiences and are included in all JEDI efforts. I look forward to learning, growing, and helping create the systemic changes to make sure we all thrive together at East Bay.
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Diversity Fellow (2021-23)
I researched geometric analysis at the University of Pennsylvania, where I volunteered for a special program for gang-impacted high schools in West Philadelphia and continued that work in Oakland after I came to CSUEB. I was born in the Philippines, came to the US as a kid and spent significant time on several continents. I believe I have at least some familiarity with assumptions that people - and I believe most, if not all, people - make, based on superficial characteristics like appearance. I think most societal problems are very complex and can benefit from diverse ideas, debate, and data - things I hope to encourage in this position as we seek to understand faculty recruitment and retention.