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María Luz Espino
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Doctora | MKE 🏡 | Zaca 🇲🇽 | lifter 🏋🏾‍♀️ | ΧΥΣ 🌺🦉 | ISU🌪 🔴🟡 | MU 🦅💙💛| UW 🦡♥️🤍 | https://linktr.ee/mespino19
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Hey Everyone! I want to introduce myself to this space!

👩‍🔬 My work centers on empowering systematically excluded students—especially in community colleges and STEM fields.

✨ When I’m not researching, you’ll find me at Disneyland or eating my way through LA.

Let’s connect! 🌈
#HigherEd #STEM #CC
Apply to Join our Board!
Hola! wanna get involved with AERA Latinx Leadership? Now’s your moment! We’ve got open positions & we’re looking for passionate folx ready to lead.

More info: Dr. Rachel Gomez at [email protected]
Deadline: Oct 20, 2025
October 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Forever proud of you!!
After countless hours of reading, writing, and revising from the airport, hotels, and institutions, I am excited to announce that I am officially a PhD Candidate! I am grateful to those who surround me and pour into me as I continue this journey! #PhDCandidate #PhDLoading
June 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Bruce and I are at it again! Don't forget to check out @dedoose.bsky.social in the exhibition hall! #AERA2025 #BruceAdventures #BruceTheMooseFromDedoose
April 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
🚨 We’re presenting at Council for the Study of Community Colleges this week! 🎉

Advancing Racial Equity in Community Colleges: Lessons from California's 2022-2025 Equity Plans

🗓️ April 4th, 2025

⏰ 2:15pm - 3:30pm

📍 Venetian Ballroom Table 2

🔥 #CSCC2025 #RacialEquity #CommunityCollege
March 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🚨 We’re presenting at CSCC this week! 🎉
Translating Learnings From STEM Scholarship Winners Into Effective Strategies For Fostering Student Success
🗓️ April 3rd, 2025
⏰ 3:30pm - 4:45pm
📍 Pre-Conference VII, Woodward CD

Catch the pre-con sessions! 🔥 #CSCC2025 #STEMScholarships #CommunityCollege
March 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Grateful for the chance to attend the MJL & PEOPLE Level Up 2025 Conference! Led sessions on leaving a lasting legacy & the power of networking. Inspiring students, passionate about leadership & growth, reminded me of the importance of giving back. 🌱✨ #Leadership #Networking
February 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
At 1:39am was the first time I actually spent time looking at my notifications. I love just hanging out with my mom, jumping for store to store in the winter 🥹☃️
December 27, 2024 at 7:55 AM
🚀 Join Us for an Exciting Webinar on December 11, 2024! (TOMORROW)🚀
We are thrilled to announce an insightful webinar featuring Becky Wai-Ling Packard!
👉 Register now to reserve your spot: rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#STEMEducatiin #CommunityColleges
#Mentoring
#SSTEM
December 10, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Is anyone else just feeling like they got hit with another round of COVID? I took tests - all negative, but I feel like 💩! #HolidayIck
December 4, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Santa baby 🧑🏾‍🎄☃️❄️
November 29, 2024 at 10:20 PM
Grateful for an incredible ASHE 2024 conference! ✨ Connected with new faces, reconnected with old mentors & friends, and left feeling inspired and re-energized. My cup is full 🌟 #ASHE2024 #ResearchDriven #HigherEdCommunity #Gratitude #ContinuedGrowth #Reenergized #ASHE2024
November 28, 2024 at 4:11 AM
Read "Building Community College Capacity: The Role of the CCSN" to learn more about the Community College S-STEM Network (CCSN), its journey over the last 2 years, and how community colleges can leverage this network to create impactful programs.

Read the blog post today: brnw.ch/21wP1xi
November 27, 2024 at 5:19 PM
🚀 Join Us for an Exciting Webinar on December 11, 2024! 🚀
We are thrilled to announce a webinar featuring Becky Wai-Ling Packard, Mary E. Woolley Professor of Psychology and Education at Mount Holyoke College.

👉 Register: rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#STEMEducation #CommunityCollege #Mentorship
November 26, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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Heading back to LA this morning and reflecting on how much has been poured into me at this year’s ASHE conference and seeing the amazing growth in my partner as a scholar, @mespino19.bsky.social #ASHE24 #ASHE2024 #PhDLoading
November 24, 2024 at 3:50 PM
The most amazing thing happened to me, a masters student came up to me on the escalator to connect ♥️ I truly love #ASHE for allowing a space for these interaction to happen seamlessly ♥️
November 23, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Yall already know these locations are going to be 🔥
Announced at the #ASHE2024 closing, future ASHE Conference locations:

Fall 2026
📍San Juan, Puerto Rico

Fall 2027
📍Albuquerque, New Mexico

Fall 2028
📍Providence, Rhode Island
November 23, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Oh snow I missed you ❄️☃️
November 20, 2024 at 11:24 PM
#ASHE2024 here we come ☝🏾
November 20, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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Jay on Bluesky: We've been scaling up. There's been about a million people joining a day for the past week
November 20, 2024 at 4:52 AM
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Normalize Professors:

⁃ Having tattoos
⁃ Having body piercings
⁃ Having colored hair
⁃ Wearing casual clothing
- Wearing (excessive) jewelry
⁃ Speaking non-academic English
November 19, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Out of so many great things that happened this year, the best thing that could have happened just did. My brother is enrolling to community college again! I am SO excited he is ready to go back to school! ♥️ #SupportSwirlers #NontraditionalStudents #CommunityCollegeStudents
November 19, 2024 at 1:30 AM
Ya girl is also on the market for TT positions so feel free to DM any positions y’all see or check out the website ♥️

www.marialespino.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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#ASHE2024 is right around the corner! Come check out #CCHALES work and my research on #ECHS y #Arrebatos!

@dradjgonzalez.bsky.social
November 15, 2024 at 3:22 PM
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Hey Everyone! I want to introduce myself to this space!

👩‍🔬 My work centers on empowering systematically excluded students—especially in community colleges and STEM fields.

✨ When I’m not researching, you’ll find me at Disneyland or eating my way through LA.

Let’s connect! 🌈
#HigherEd #STEM #CC
November 15, 2024 at 3:28 AM