About

Dr. Beatriz Padilla
Director of the Institute of Latin American and the Caribbean Studies, and Associate Professor of Sociology

Roberto Jiménez
Hailing from Puerto Rico, Roberto is a Senior Instructor of Spanish, currently serving as Undergraduate Director of Spanish

Dr. Adriana Novoa
Associate Professor of History
Dr. Novoa is a cultural historian whose specialty is science in Latin America.

Dr. Bárbara Cruz 
Professor of Social Science Education, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, conducting research on global and multicultural issues.

Neudy Carolina Nunez 
Assistant Dean of Students and Director for the Office of Multicultural Affairs at USF-Tampa

Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman
Interim Vice President for Institutional
Equity, and Senior Advisor to the President and Provost for Diversity and Inclusion

Dr. Luis Felipe Mantilla 
Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Political Science, St. Petersburg campus.

Dr. Aaron Augsburger 
Assistant Professor of the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies.

Dr. Fenda Akiwumi 
Director of the Institute on Black Life, Professor in the Geography, Environmental Science and Policy Program

Dr. Diana Leon-Boys
Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication. Her research and teaching interests are in critical media and cultural studies, Latinx studies, and girlhood studies.

Andrea Cetré, MA 
ISLAC Staff Assistant