Hello! Nora, Ceal, and Amy welcome you to the Mentorship and Mentoring Practices SIG (#066). We meet every month to move forward on award cycles, prepare for the upcoming conference, and work to help our members. We are working on the SIG Website and hope to publish a periodic newsletter.
We wanted to share a bit about ourselves. We look forward to serving you. Nora, SIG Chair, and Ceal, SIG Secretary/Treasurer, will continue for the next year (elections next year!), and Amy has finished the first of her three-year term as Program Chair.
Nora Dominguez, Ph.D., is the Director of the Mentoring Institute at the University of New Mexico (UNM), a Professional Consultant at the School of Medicine (SOM-UNM), Assistant Professor at the Organization, Information and Learning Sciences Department (OILS-UNM), Research Faculty for the Department of Internal Medicine (IM-UNM), and President Emeritus of the International Mentoring Association (IMA). Dominguez earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), her M.B.A. from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), and her Ph.D. in Organizational Learning and Instructional Technologies from the University of New Mexico (UNM).
Nora has over 30 years of experience holding academic and management positions in banking and higher education institutions and providing consulting and program evaluation services in the United States and Mexico. She served at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) - Mentoring and Mentorship Practices SIG as Conference Program Chair (2019-2021) and currently serves as the SIG’s Chair (2023-2025). Dominguez is also a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal for Mentoring and Coaching (Emerald, UK)); co-author of the book Mentoring: Perspectivas Teóricas y Prácticas (2010), co-editor and chapter contributor of the SAGE Handbook of Mentoring (2017), chapter contributor of the Wiley International Handbook of Mentoring (2020), co-editor of the book Making Connections: A Handbook for Effective Formal Mentoring Programs in Academia (2023), author of several articles published in peer-reviewed journals, and chief editor of the online journal The Chronicle of Mentoring and Coaching.
Retired engineer, researcher.
Society of Women Engineers Fellow and Distinguished Service Award recipient.
Ceal@research.druai.com
The mentoring SIG was helpful to me during my dissertation research over a decade ago. In my journey to become a researcher after retiring from three decades in engineering, the SIG focus matched my personal goal: Recruiting and retaining women in engineering and computer sciences careers. Mentoring practices, experiences, programs, and deficits are key success factors for achieving that goal. I’ve been active in AERA since 2010. First as a graduate student, then as a researcher, educator, and not-for-profit volunteer. Through 12 years with AERA, I have been a peer reviewer for the Mentoring SIG (and other SIGs and Divisions) for 11 of those 12 years. In AERA 2022, I was a discussant for one of the Mentoring SIG sessions (and another SIG); in 2018, helped the SIG with the Distinguished Paper award judging. I hope to help the Mentoring SIG grow and remain an active SIG as secretary. I’m committed to help!
In 2024, as the Editor, I published a book on mentoring women in STEM, Mentoring in STEM Through a Female Identity Lens: Heroes Make a Difference for Women. This book grew out of my participation as a discussant at AERA 2022; the publisher approached me afterward. I'm now working on a book with five other SWE Fellows (publication planned for September 2025) describing the lives of the first 25 years of Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award recipients (1952-1976), along with chapters on relevant happenings in those years.
BS Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University; MS Engineering, California State University, Fullerton; PhD Education, Walden University. Fellow, Society of Women Engineers.
Other relevant info: not-for-profit officer (President, Secretary, Treasurer, and more) for several education, engineering, arts, and environmental support groups for over thirty years.
Assistant Professor, College of Education, Auburn University
serafini@auburn.edu
Dr. Amy Serafini brings a wealth of leadership and organizational expertise to the role of Program Chair for the Mentorship & Mentoring Practices SIG. Her tenure as Section Chair of Division A - Administration, Section 2: School Organization and Effects in 2023, honed her ability to manage and coordinate the complex nature of planning conference sessions, ensuring relevance and impact within the field. Amy’s service to the SIG includes membership on the Distinguished Paper Award Committee and Dissertation Award Committee. Driven by a profound conviction in the transformative power of mentorship, Amy's vision for the Program Chair position is to cultivate a dynamic forum that honors and elevates the practice of mentorship in all its forms. Her prior experience as Secretary/Treasurer has not only endowed her with a comprehensive understanding of the SIG's operational dynamics but also primed her to steer its endeavors towards tangible outcomes that resonate with the SIG’s core objectives.