NAHJ Convention Assistance Recipient
Alberto Roca was chosen after submitting an essay, and he will now be going to the convention!
Alberto is the Executive Director of Diverse Scholar and Editor of MinorityPostDoc.org.
Meet Alberto:
“I am a first-generation Peruvian-American from Houston, Texas and received my Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. While conducting biophysical postdoctoral research as my day job, after hours I created the web portal MinorityPostdoc.org (2003), founded the Postdoc Committee of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), and co-founded the Diversity Committee of the National Postdoctoral Association. Since 2011 as Editor, I have been publishing original DiverseScholar articles on the issues of diversity, STEM, and higher education thereby serving as a venue for faculty and trainee scholars to disseminate their diversity testimonials and promising practices. In recognition of my achievements, I have received the University of California, Irvine Chancellor’s Living Our Values Award, the SACNAS Presidential Service Award, a semi-finalist for the Echoing Green social entrepreneurship fellowship (2013 & 2014), and was a finalist for the UNITY Journalists for Diversity NewU Startup Competition (2013).”
You can find him on twitter @MinorityPostdoc
Congratulations Alberto!
-Alex Cerball
V.P. NAHJ San Diego/Tijuana