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Mentoring Grant

Awarded Grants

Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2022 Sanchez and Lee

With this award, Sanchez will promote a culture of collective responsibility for mentoring graduate students of color by sharing what she learns with her research team and the faculty and graduate students within her department and college.
Bernadette Sanchez
University Of Illinois At Urbana
2022 – 2024
$60,000
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2022 Walker and Gudino

With this award, Walker aims to develop her skills and confidence to support mentees when they encounter challenges related to their racial or cultural identity, normalize discussions about race within her mentee relationships, and help mentees explore the multiple career ...
Sarah Walker
University Of Washington
2022 – 2024
$60,000
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2021 Yeager and Dobson

Yeager will use this award to continue his journey of learning and growing with respect to inequality, privilege, and positionality, and to learn how to move toward more institutional change in his department and college.
David Yeager
University Of Texas At Austin
2021 – 2023
$110,000
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2021 Becker and Chu

Becker will use this award to make intentional space for reflection about how her and her mentees’ racial identities shape their experiences in academia.
Kimberly Becker
University Of South Carolina
2021 – 2024
$60,000
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2021 Rivas-Drake and Pinetta

With this award, Rivas-Drake aims to improve her capacity to support Latinas and other women of color to develop multigenerational mentoring networks.
Deborah Rivas-Drake
University Of Michigan
2021 – 2024
$60,000
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2021 Painter-Davis and Setter

Painter-Davis will use this grant to develop skills to better communicate across differences in perspectives, particularly related to racial-ethnic inequalities as they impact his students.
Noah Painter Davis
University Of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
2021 – 2024
$59,998.84
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2020 Guilamo-Ramos and Keene

Guilamo-Ramos will use this grant to assist in the development of a university-wide evidence-based mentoring infrastructure that will directly support early-career researchers of color.
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos
Duke University
2020 – 2023
$109,766.10
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2020 Schneider and Logan

With this grant, Schneider will learn to grow mentoring relationships that foster the development of students’ independent research agendas.
Daniel Schneider
Harvard University
2020 – 2022
$59,985
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2020 Soliz and Mesa

Soliz will use this award to expand her capacity to support students’ intersectional identities.
Adela Soliz
Vanderbilt University
2020 – 2023
$60,000

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  •  Aug 23, 2021

2021 Mentoring Grants to Support Junior Researchers of Color

The Foundation is pleased to announce that four research grantees have been awarded grants to support their development as mentors to junior researchers of color. The awardees will mentor promising doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows in enhancing their methodological skills, ...
Foundation Staff
2021 Mentoring Grants to Support Junior Researchers of Color

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