UF Alliance welcomes recent graduates to staff

The UF Alliance is welcoming two recent COE graduates on board as full-time staff.

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As the Alliance’s program coordinator, Diane Archer-Banks works with administrators, teachers and students to increase college access among marginalized students.
Formerly the academic program coordinator for the PACE Center for Girls of Alachua, Archer-Banks completed her Ph.D. at COE earlier this year. Her research interests include examining how the intersection of race and gender impacts students’ school experiences, teacher instruction and the curriculum.

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As a graduate student at UF, Diana Melendez served as the Alliance’s college readiness liaison – the host, guide and interpreter for hundreds of parents who brought their children to UF. This work, and her counseling work in the community, earned Melendez COE’s Outstanding Graduate Leadership Award when she graduated in May. Melendez can expand on her work now that she has a full-time appointment as a program coordinator for the Alliance.

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