M. Cristina Alcalde is vice president for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and a professor of global and intercultural studies at Miami University. As a scholar-practitioner, her areas of focus include racialization, gender and gender violence, migration, and exclusion and belonging. She has spoken and published widely on these topics, including five books and over thirty articles and book chapters.
Mangala Subramaniam is a professor of sociology, serves as Butler chair and director of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence at Purdue University, and is the current state codirector of the American Council on Education (ACE) Women’s Network of Indiana. Her research is in the areas of gender (and intersections with race, class, nationality), social movements, and higher education. In her current administrative role, she focuses on providing opportunities to enhance leadership skills and professional development for faculty. She has published over forty articles and book chapters in addition to four books, and her work has been highlighted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and Higher Education Digest.