Leadership Team

Nancy Maingi Ngwu

Nancy Maingi Ngwu

Strategic Dialogue Director, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Dialogues Program
ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Engage | School of Education
Nancy Maingi Ngwu is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥. She studies organizational communication. Her research generally engages how organizational actors at the margins of society communicatively organize to manage, resist, and remake oppressive structures. As a practitioner, she designs dialogues on systemic inequities and trains organizational members/leaders to dialogue on and organize toward equitable, diverse and inclusive practices, policies, and procedures. She is currently a...
Steve Sommer

Steve Sommer

Graduate Research Assistant, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Dialogues Program
ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Engage | School of Education
Stephen Sommer is a dual doctoral candidate in the Learning Sciences and Human Development Program (Education) and the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥, Boulder. He is one of the co-facilitators of the DEI-Informed Dailogic Pedagogy Micro-credential.

Additional Staff & GRAs

Melissa Rubin

Melissa Rubin

Administrative Assistant, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Dialogues Program
ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Engage | School of Educaion
Melissa Rubin is the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Dialogues Program Administrator . Melissa has worked at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ for over 15 years doing Administrative and Organizational support for programs focussed on Community-Based and Engaged learning. She completed her BA in Religious Studies and a Certificate in the Study and Practice of Leadership through the INVST Community Leadership Program.
Maria Vielma

Maria Vielma

PhD Student
EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS • POLICY & PRACTICE | School of Education
Maria G. Vielma is a Ph.D. student in Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥, Boulder. Her research has largely centered on the lived experiences of Latinas and women of color within higher education themes like femtorship and confianza. Her work with ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Dialogues focuses on dialogue curriculum design.