The Alliance has a distinguished group of Advisory Board members:


      Maricel Quintana-Baker, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia

      Maricel Quintana-Baker, Ph.D. serves as Associate Director for Academic Affairs at the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV). Dr. Quintana-Baker is responsible for coordinating Virginia's Outstanding Faculty Awards and the Doctoral Nursing Loan Repayment Program. She works with the Agency's Statewide Strategic Plan, and serves as the lead staff for the agency's regional collaborative initiatives between nursing education providers and health foundations. She serves as the Agency liaison with the Virginia Space Grant Consortium and the Virginia Math & Science Coalition, and is a member of the National Advisory Board for the Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions. In addition, she also serves as a Commissioner in the Governor's Virginia Latino Advisory Board. Currently, Dr. Quintana-Baker leads the effort to create the Virginia Latino Higher Education Network (VALHEN), an organization designed to create a higher education network of faculty, staff, students, and relevant community entities to work with the ever-growing numbers of Latino students in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Dr. Quintana-Baker held an Oakridge Institute for Science and Education Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the National Science Foundationss Division of Education and Human Resource Development, where she was the Principal Investigator and Writer for a national project on the role of recruitment and retention strategies and institutional culture at Hispanic Serving Institutions. She is frequently invited to speak on issues on the Latino population and higher education access. She has been a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Society since 1979. Other professional memberships include the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE), the Women Executives in Virginia Higher Education (WEVHE). Dr. Quintana-Baker is originally from Santiago, Cuba and is fluent in Spanish.


      Irene Hernandez Roberts, IBM Innovation Centers for Business Partners

      Irene Roberts is a Program Director in IBM Software Group, ISV and Developer Relations focused on working closely with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to help these partners integrate IBM products and technologies into their business solutions. With IBM for 26 years, she provides significant mentoring within and outside IBM. She is active in integrating the IBM Academic Initiative program across the Hispanic Community through the Computing Alliance for Hispanic Serving Institutions and the Hispanic Association for Colleges and Universities. She is also a Lifetime member of the Society for Professional Engineers. Irene is an IBM Master Inventor with over 50 IBM Patents. Irene received her Bachelor's in Computer Science from University of Texas at Austin in 1981.


      Robert B. Schnabel, University of Colorado at Boulder

      Bobby Schnabel is Dean of the School of Informatics at Indiana University. In this position he leads a multi-campus school of approximately 100 faculty members at the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses, including undergraduate and graduate programs in the departments of computer science and informatics at Bloomington and in informatics at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, as well as undergraduate programs at the Kokomo, South Bend and Southeast campuses of Indiana University. He is a Professor in the departments of computer science and informatics at IU Bloomington. Prior to beginning this position in July 2007, Dr. Schnabel served as Vice Provost for Academic and Campus Technology and Chief Information Officer at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1998-2007. He also served as founding director of the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS), a campus-wide institute that serves as a catalyst for multidisciplinary curricular, research and outreach activities involving the content and tools of information technology, from 1997-2007. He was on the faculty of the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1977-2007, also serving as chair of the Department of Computer Science from 1990 to 1995, and as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering and Applied Science from 1995 to 1997. Dr. Schnabel's teaching and research interests are in the areas of scientific and parallel computation, including applications to molecular chemistry problems. He is a co-founder and executive team member of the National Center for Women and Information Technology, and a PI on the HBCU (historically black colleges and universities) Research Partnership funded by NSF as part of the Broadening Participation in Computing program. Currently he serves as editor-in-chief of the flagship journal of the Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics, SIAM Review; as a member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association; and as chair of the Information Technology Deans group of CRA. He also serves on the advisory committee for the Institute for Capacity Building of the United Negro College Fund, and as chair of the advisory committee for the Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions.


      Richard A. Tapia, Rice University


      Richard A. Tapia is a mathematician and professor in the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He is internationally known for his research in the computational and mathematical sciences and is a national leader in education and outreach programs. Tapia's current Rice positions are University Professor; Maxfield-Oshman Professor in Engineering; Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Office of Research and Graduate Studies; and Director of the Center for Excellence and Equity in Education.

Andrew Bernat, Computing Research Association

Andrew Bernat is the current Executive Director of the Computing Research Association (www.cra.org), an association of more than 250 North American academic departments of computer science, computer engineering, and related fields; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia engaging in basic computing research; and affiliated professional societies. As founding member and chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at El Paso, he developed an acclaimed model of student involvement in research, secured external funding, attracted and hired high quality faculty, and directed the renovation of a building to house the department. In recognition of "... his success in creating arguably the strongest computer science department at a minority-serving institution", the Computing Research Association honored him with the A. Nico Habermann Award. In developing and leading the National Science Foundation-funded Model Institutions for Excellence project at UTEP, he forged working groups across different departments and colleges that dramatically transformed the campus and led to qualitative and quantitative improvement in student achievement. He has led national efforts to increase the participation of underrepresented minorities and women in the computing profession. The workshop series he initiated with colleagues in Mexico dramatically increased the activity and productivity of the Mexican computer science community. While a Program Director at the National Science Foundation, he oversaw the Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service program. His experience ranges from scientific research, with some 62 invited presentations and publications, to educational reform and innovation, with some thirty invited presentations and publications.

 

Wendy Carmody, Hewlett-Packard Program Manager

Wendy Carmody is a program manager for Hewlett Packard's University Relations Organization. Wendy joined UR in June 2006 with over fifteen years of human resources experience supporting HP Labs, where she worked closely with HP Labs researchers and technology leaders on various initiatives supporting employee development, recognition, and retention. Wendy was co-lead of the Technical Women's Task Force Initiative 2004-2006, where she worked with the technical women's community in strategic program development in the areas of recruitment, retention, development, and advancement. She currently serves on the Anita Borg Institute Sponsor Council, a venue for influencing and evaluating ABI events and programs; the Workforce Alliance of NCWIT; and the advisory panel for the Computing Alliance for Hispanic Serving Institutions. She has a BS from the College of Agriculture, UC Davis, an MBA from the University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business, and is presently pursuing an MA in education at San Jose State University.

 

The charge of the Advisory Board is:

    • To review and provide suggestions regarding the Alliance activities, evaluation, and dissemination efforts in meeting the Alliance goals
    • To make recommendations regarding the strategic direction of the Alliance