People Group Archives: Tenured or Earning

Denisse Córdova Montes is a human rights advocate and educator. Her work focuses on human rights approaches to food system inequities, state and local implementation of human rights, and the role of social movements in shaping human rights norms and discourse. From 2019-2024, she was Lecturer-in-Law at the University of Miami School of Law and […]

L. Trenton S. Marsh, PhD currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Learning Sciences and Educational Research at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Prior to UCF he completed a two-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan (U-M), where he […]

Previously Dr. Walker served as a lecturer at Loyola University Maryland. In addition, he held a faculty appointment at Howard University. He has nearly a decade of experience working in rural, urban, and suburban school districts. Dr. Walker’s research has three threads including 1) examining the impact leadership and policy decisions have on education and […]

Amanda Wilkerson seeks to build a better world through cooperation, collaboration, and community action. She is an Assistant Professor in the College of Community Innovation and Education at the University of Central Florida and is a proud graduate of Florida A&M University. Amanda has written educational materials and coordinated forums on significant social, educational, and […]

Dr. Melissa Zeligman is an associate professor of counselor education in the Department of Counselor Education and School Psychology. Prior to completing her doctorate at the University of Central Florida, Dr. Zeligman served as a mental health counselor, working in agency, medical, legal, and high school settings. Her research focuses on trauma work- including the […]

Carlton Patrick is an interdisciplinary legal scholar who studies the cognitive and evolutionary foundations of law. His research attempts to draw a through-line from the natural sciences to the behavioral sciences, and from the behavioral sciences to the social sciences, by first asking empirical questions about why humans behave in the way they do, and then asking normative […]

Dr. Sung Choi received a doctorate in health services research, policy and administration at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management exploring the U.S. healthcare system through economics and data. Dr. Choi is currently investigating the impact of health data breaches […]