Lisa Delacruz Combs (she/her/siya) is currently a second-year doctoral student at The Ohio State University in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program. She plans to write her dissertation about liminality and multiraciality. She recently transitioned from her role as Program Coordinator in the Student Diversity and Multicultural Affairs Office at Loyola University Chicago. Prior to working at Loyola University Chicago, Lisa also worked as a Coordinator for Campus Life at Illinois Institute of Technology and as a Graduate Assistant in the Office of Community Engagement and Service at Miami University of Ohio. Lisa’s research interests include identity interconnections, multiraciality in higher education, Filipinx identity development, poststructural feminist perspectives, and Asian American college students. Lisa has published about multiracial topics including a co-edited New Directions Student Services volume titled Beyond the Box: Connecting Multiracial Identities, Oppressions, and Environments and a new volume that came out this year about preparing higher education for a mixed race future. She is also working on an edited book (with Dr. Aeriel Ashlee) called, Identity Interconnections: Facilitating Empathy and Connectivity Across and Between Identity Experiences. She has published articles in the Journal of College Student Development and Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies. Lisa also served as the Co-Chair for the Multiracial Network in ACPA and has presented about multiracial topics at many conferences including ACPA, ASHE, Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS), and NCORE. She received her B.A in Political Science and English from The Ohio State University and her M.S. in Student Affairs in Higher Education from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Binaya Subedi is an Assistant Dean at the Newark Campus, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning. Binaya Subedi’s research examines broader issues of migration and citizenship. The research addresses the challenges and possibilities that immigrant and refugee families create when they collectively migrate across national and international borders. He has published numerous journal articles on topics such as global representations, visual culture and immigrant youth identities. He is co-editor of the journal Educational Studies. His current work includes developing community based leadership programs within marginalized communities that have faced trauma and violence.
Shirley L. Yu is associate professor of educational psychology in the Department of Educational Studies. Her research interests are centered on the relations of self-regulated learning, motivation, and instructional factors to retention and achievement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), with a particular emphasis on women and ethnic minority students. She is director of the Graduate Certificate in College and University Teaching, and she serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Experimental Education. She is a recipient of the College of Education and Human Ecology’s Distinguished Teaching Award.
