Alejandra Rincón
Alejandra Rincón, PhD serves as Assistant Vice-Chancellor and Chief of Staff for the Office of Diversity and Outreach at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). In that capacity, she manages the overall operations of the Office of Diversity and Outreach, is the lead strategist for this unit and works to carry out the vision and goals for the overall campus and health system including the recently launched Anti-Racism initiative. As part of this initiative, she provides oversight to the enterprise’s effort focused on Advancing Excellence in Staff Recruitment by standardizing the UCSF process for hiring top executives and upper management.
In addition to her administrative duties, she also serves as a Curriculum lead for UCSF’s Latinx Center of Excellence and was the inaugural Dean’s Department Diversity Leader in the in the School of Medicine working on optimizing the curriculum to include and align content on health disparities. More recently, she is serving as inaugural Director of the Institute for Diversity, Equity and Anti-Racism Leadership (IDEAL), a new program of the ODO to elevate the work, visibility and career progression of faculty and staff involved in diversity related activities across UCSF.
Dr. Alejandra Rincón is the author of “Undocumented Immigrants and Higher Education: ¡Sí se puede!” This is the first book on the topic to chronicle the historic struggle of undocumented students and their supporters to gain equal access to higher education through in-state tuition laws. Her most recent publication entitled “Immigrants’ Efforts to Access Public Schools and Higher Education in the United States” is part of Springer’s 2020 Handbook on Promoting Social Justice in Education.
Dr. Rincón is the 2006 recipient of the Human Relations Award of the National Association of College Admissions Counseling. The award honors persons who have been instrumental in making postsecondary education opportunities available to historically underrepresented students. Through her service for the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE), she advocates for increased educational opportunities for underrepresented students at the graduate level. She serves in the Board of Trustees of Presidio Knolls, a progressive Mandarin immersion school in San Francisco.
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In addition to her administrative duties, she also serves as a Curriculum lead for UCSF’s Latinx Center of Excellence and was the inaugural Dean’s Department Diversity Leader in the in the School of Medicine working on optimizing the curriculum to include and align content on health disparities. More recently, she is serving as inaugural Director of the Institute for Diversity, Equity and Anti-Racism Leadership (IDEAL), a new program of the ODO to elevate the work, visibility and career progression of faculty and staff involved in diversity related activities across UCSF.
Dr. Alejandra Rincón is the author of “Undocumented Immigrants and Higher Education: ¡Sí se puede!” This is the first book on the topic to chronicle the historic struggle of undocumented students and their supporters to gain equal access to higher education through in-state tuition laws. Her most recent publication entitled “Immigrants’ Efforts to Access Public Schools and Higher Education in the United States” is part of Springer’s 2020 Handbook on Promoting Social Justice in Education.
Dr. Rincón is the 2006 recipient of the Human Relations Award of the National Association of College Admissions Counseling. The award honors persons who have been instrumental in making postsecondary education opportunities available to historically underrepresented students. Through her service for the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE), she advocates for increased educational opportunities for underrepresented students at the graduate level. She serves in the Board of Trustees of Presidio Knolls, a progressive Mandarin immersion school in San Francisco.
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