About Us

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Vice President for Institutional Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Hopkins Hall
413-597-2042

Leticia Haynes provides leadership to a team whose work is integral to all operations of the College and several strategic areas including teaching and learning, recruitment and retention, student relations, physical spaces, and community partnerships.

The team directs the Davis Center; Pathways for Inclusive Excellence; conflict management, grievance processes, restorative practices; and, lifelong learning educational programs.

As a member of the President’s senior staff, her work aimed at ensuring all members of the community are welcome, included, and have the opportunity to thrive, is done in partnership with her colleagues who are also members of the College’s senior leadership.

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Assistant Vice President for Campus Engagement and Director of the Davis Center
Jenness House
413-597-3359

Bilal leads the office’s campus engagement efforts that support campus constituents as they work to create and sustain inclusive and productive environments in which the members of our community may thrive.

As a senior student affairs leader, he advises students and student groups on their academic-social pursuits as they move through the academy.

As a bridge builder, helps lead the integration of restorative practices and dialogue work on campus. He oversees the TIDE grant initiative that encourages grassroots efforts to foster a sense of belonging for all community members; and, convenes IDEA2, a space for administrative unit leaders to share experiences with their colleagues as they identify opportunities and promising practices in their work.

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Associate Dean for Institutional Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Associate Professor of Geosciences
Hopkins Hall
413-597-3298

As Associate Dean, José mentors tenure stream and visiting faculty as well as faculty who have pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships.

José engages faculty and academic units around matters pertaining to curricular and scholarly initiatives, hiring, development, and retention efforts, and matters of culture and climate in and outside of learning environments. He routinely utilizes data and information to inform promising practices to support a diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus community.

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Assistant Vice President for Institutional Diversity, Equity and Inclusion/Title IX Coordinator
Hopkins Hall
413-597-3301

Toya Camacho leads the College’s non-discrimination efforts. As the College’s Title IX Coordinator and ADA Coordinator she ensures compliance with federal and state laws and College policies. She also facilitates the implementation of several of the College’s policies and procedures aimed at ensuring equitable spaces in which the members of our community work and learn.

As a facilitator, Toya also leads conflict management efforts designed to create and sustain collegial, productive environments for staff, students, and faculty.

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Assistant Vice President and Director of Pathways for Inclusive Excellence
Hopkins Hall
413-597-3360

Ivonne García is the Assistant Vice President for Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She brings a wealth of experience – as a senior college administrator, professor, and community advocate.

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Program Coordinator for Pathways & OIDEI
Rice House West-Rm 106-Pathways for Inclusive Excellence
413-597-3747

Bob oversees the administrative functions in Pathways for Inclusive Excellence.  He manages event planning for the office and coordination of summer and year-round academic programs.

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Executive Assistant to the Vice President
Hopkins Hall
413-597-2042
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Associate Director for Inclusive Learning Environments
Davis Center
413-597-4605

Aly works closely with students, staff, and faculty across the institution to support inclusivity in the many places where people learn at Williams. Aly leads workshops on increasing accessibility and equity inside and outside of the classroom, interrupting bias in hiring processes, and building capacity to advance DEI within academic and administrative units and student groups. Additionally, they manage fellowships for student-initiated social and racial justice projects; they curate a variety programming on intersectional topics; they advise multiple student affinity groups; and they co-chair campus-wide committees advancing anti-racist, LGBTQ+ inclusion.

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Dialogue Facilitator
Jenness House
413-597-4513

Dré Finley serves as our Dialogue Facilitator in the Office of Institutional Diversity Equity and Inclusion. Dré works to implement and encourage campus engagement in a variety of capacities.

As inter- and intra-group dialogue facilitator, Dré helps to advance the understandings and complexities of identity associated with race, class, gender, sexuality, spirituality, disability, and the many facets of our beings.

While engaging with students, staff, faculty and our broader community, his work in advancing trust-building dialogue and restorative practices is widely acclaimed.

As co-chair of the Trans Inclusion committee, Dré works to foster and bolster the visibility and needs of gender inclusive and expansive members of our community.

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Center and Program Coordinator
Davis Center
413-597-3353

Nat oversees administrative functions at the Davis Center. In doing so, she supports student-led and department programming. Nat works to meet the operational needs of student groups developing and leading initiatives.

 

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Assistant Director for Intergroup Relations and Inclusive Programming
Davis Center
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Chair
Art
W.L.S. Spencer Studio Art Building, Rm 314
413-597-4862
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Associate Professor of Statistics
Wachenheim Science Center, Rm 236
413-597-5029
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Deputy Director - Davis Center and Pathways for Inclusive Excellence
Jenness House
413-597-2922
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Deputy Title IX Coordinator
Hopkins Hall