2024 Gabriel E. Gallardo Research, Student Leadership & Advocacy Symposium
Welcome to the 2024 Gabriel E. Gallardo Research, Student Leadership & Advocacy Symposium!
The GEG Symposium continues UW McNair's 30-year legacy in providing a space for students to showcase their scholarship and advocacy, establish contacts and learn from peers who share identities underrepresented in academia.
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Keynote Speakers
We welcome our Keynote Speakers below!
Tony Lucero, Professor, Chair - Comparative History of Ideas
The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
José Antonio Lucero was born in El Paso, Texas, and raised on both sides of the Mexico-US border. His main research and teaching interests include Indigenous politics, social movements, Latin American politics, and borderlands.
Jesús Martínez-Gómez, Post-Doctoral Fellow
Blackman Lab, The Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley
Jesús Martínez-Gómez is an evolutionary botanist interested in the processes that give rise to diverse patterns of morphology. At U.C., Berkeley he is both a NSF Post-Doctoral Fellow and U.C. Presidential Post-Doctoral Fellow investigating the microevolutionary processes that lead to differences in flowering architecture in Mimulus (syn. Erythranthe).
Azeb Madebo, Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Studies, University of Portland
Azeb Madebo (she/her) is a digital media scholar and cultural studies scholar specializing in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa region. She is particularly fascinated by online activism, engagement, and the use of communication technologies by Africans for sociopolitical ends and the politics of identity—racial, national, and ethnic—in Africa and its diaspora communities.
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GEG Symposium Organizers
We are grateful to these University of Washington units who made this conference possible.
Location
University of Washington Husky Union Building
4001 East Stevens Way Northeast Seattle, WA United States, 98195Submission period
December 19, 2023 - 1:52 PM until April 21, 2024 - 11:59 PM
Contact us
If you have any questions, please contact gegsymposium@uw.edu .