Our Team

While our backgrounds and areas of expertise differ, the DEI team of staff and faculty all share a passion for creating a more diverse, equitable and inclusive college. Whether you’re a student, staff member, or faculty, please feel free to contact any of us! We want to hear about your experience so that we can do better, and also know where we are finding success in DEI.

Danielle Hodge

Faculty Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Assistant Professor
CommunicationCollege Leadership
danielle.hodge@colorado.edu

Danielle Hodge, PhD, employs a critical race theoretical approach to identity, culture, and language. In particular, she is concerned with how systems of oppression, marginalization, and liberation inform the identities, discursive practices, and experiences of African Americans. To advance theoretically robust and culturally grounded knowledge about African American life and language worlds, her research agenda is guided by the following questions: How can communication concepts and theories (i.e., discour...

David Martinez

Inclusive Excellence and Outreach Coordinator
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
David.Martinez@colorado.edu 303-492-4758

Our coordinator of inclusive excellence and outreach, David Martinez, has been devoted to enhancing diversity in the college long before it became CMCI. He began 28 years ago, in the former School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Martinez cultivates student success by facilitating strong relationships with our students, alumni, faculty and staff, and by bringing people together as needs and opportunities arise. For his commitment to inclusive excellence and community building, he received the President...

Ruth Hickerson Dominski

Teaching ProfessorDirector, Josephine Jones Speaking Lab
Communication
ruth.hickerson@colorado.edu 303-492-6756

An instructor in the Department of Communication, Ruth Hickerson serves as the director of Pathways to Excellence, our summer bridge program for selected incoming first-year students. She has spent 20 years working to improve the higher education experience for all students, both as an administrator and a faculty member. Hickerson is especially interested in retention and persistence among first-generation students, students with learning differences, non-traditional students, students experiencing economic hardship, and students otherwise underrepresented on campus.

Sara Jamieson

Instructor
sara.jamieson@colorado.edu 505-559-0207

A senior instructor of cultural anthropology in our CMCI Residential Academic Program, Sara Jamieson serves as founding director of Connections: CMCI Summer Academy, a program fostering relationships with Colorado high school students from communities historically underserved by CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ. In her research with Wayuu indigenous women in Venezuela and Colombia and in her 12-year college teaching career, she has addressed topics including citizenship and inclusion, race and racism, ethnicity, and gender. Though she thrives in the classroom, Sara is especially enthusiastic for the opportunity to put her commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion into practice as founding director of Connections.

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