DE&I Leadership & Resource-Building

Creating a culture of inclusion, equity and respect is an ongoing process.
This work will never truly be done.

As an ally and advocate, I routinely challenge myself to learn, un-learn, check my biases, and engage in diverse spaces as much as I can.

Below are just a few DE&I efforts and projects I’m really proud to have led and participated in.

Curating a Culture of Inclusion and Equity

Mendoza Exchange (Internal)

An unprecedented staff-facing web portal filled with resources for learning, sharing and participating in the DE&I space.

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A screenshot of the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business' internal DE&I resource page, featured on the organization's intranet site.

Growth & Inclusion (External)

A public webpage providing information to prospective and current students about safe spaces on the Notre Dame campus to be heard, seen and included.

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A screenshot of the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business' public-facing Growth and Inclusion webpage. The webpage was created to be a helpful DE&I resource for prospective and current students.

Building Engagement: Events & Opportunities

In cross-functional collaboration with program-specific admissions colleagues, student ambassadors, affinity groups and academic clubs, the Mendoza College of Business marketing team began to publicize recruitment events and College-wide celebrations to our prospective students, as a complementary marketing tactic to our existing strategy. After doing so, we saw an increase in RFIs and started applications across programs.

A digital event flyer titled "Hear It from Her: Insights from Mendoza's Female Graduate Students". The event took place digitally on March 29, 2021 from 6 to 7 p.m.

A navy and gold graphic with text promoting an event at the University of Notre Dame's Chicago campus location. The event was titled the Chicago Women's Forum, and took place Thursday, March 9th, 2022 from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

A digital event flyer promoting a Black History Month series of events hosted by Notre Dame's Black Graduates in Management student club. The flyer lists three events that took place from February 7th to 9th in 2022.

Inclusive Storytelling … In-Market and Organically

Women at Mendoza

Built in WordPress, this female-focused webpage hadn’t been updated for years.

After revamping the information architecture and creating a fresh content strategy to maintain a presence over time, the refreshed page became a space that celebrated and honored the college’s female-identifying and AFAB students, alumnae and faculty.

It also served as a space to curate and chronicle the content our team produced that featured Notre Dame women making strides in the world of business.

Click the image above to explore the page.

Capturing Mendoza Moments

The hashtag campaign #MendozaMoments helped us tap into and humanize the graduate business student experience at Notre Dame.

This short-lived effort encouraged our marketing team to have fun while keeping the principles of diversity, equity and inclusion top-of-mind as we continued to execute on our broader omni-channel strategy.