The Researcher Development Program (RDP) seeks to expand access to academic networks that dually support graduate students’ personal and professional well-being and scholarly development.
The RDP fulfills its mission by:
- Striving to create accessible, inclusive, and humanizing professional development spaces
- Promoting sustained, professionally enriching collaboration between faculty members and graduate students
- Providing research, writing, presentation, and publication opportunities aligned with participants’ academic and professional goals
- Promoting opportunities for faculty members to hone their mentorship skills.
We kick off this academic year with 22 mentors and 41 mentees! Currently, the RDP Planning Committee is supporting mentors and mentees as they begin their semester, setting their goals for the year, and planning how they will develop their final projects. Throughout their experience, we intend to support their relationship building, creativity, and project development. Here we provide a list of the mentor-mentee matches for the 2024-2025 cohort.
| Mentor Group |
Mentee |
Mentee Institution |
| Jennifer Watters |
Aish Sankar |
University of Wisconsin - River Fall |
| Haim Shaked |
Yashi Ye |
Lakehead University |
| Carlos Ruano |
Nazym Malikova |
University of Washington |
| Charleston Yanders |
Howard University |
| Laura Rogers |
Seijoon Park |
University of Missouri-Columbia |
| Lan Nguyen |
University of Texas at Austin |
| Kathryn Wiley |
Arthur Sosa |
East Carolina University |
| Catalina Vasquez |
University of Texas Austin |
| Hamada Elfarargy |
Alyssa Lund |
East Carolina Universtity |
| Shanea L. Neal |
Southern Methodist University |
| Jeff Walls |
Regina Seabrook |
University of Minnesota |
| Jesse Lasser |
University of Colorado, Denver |
| Nishika Edwards |
Xiaohan Liu |
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Claudia Newby |
California Lutheran University |
| Meredith Wronowski |
Dan Dawer |
The University of Texas at Austin |
| Aradne Jevnikar |
Lakehead University |
| Barbara L. Pazey |
Pinyi Wang |
University of Florida |
| April Miles |
Texas State University |
| Meredith Honig |
Su Yon Choi |
Michigan State University |
| Stacey Meehan |
University of New Orleans |
| Danielle Sutherland |
Isatou B Secka |
Ohio University |
| Courtney Cavellier |
University of St. Thomas |
| Mollie McQuillan |
Mehdi Lazar |
TBS Education / International School of Boston |
| Jocelyn Belden |
Georgia State University |
| Sedat Gumus |
Lalakhanim Orujova |
University of South Florida |
| Munube Yilmaz |
Texas State University |
| Ibrahim Duyar |
La-Neka Brown |
Virginia Commonwealth University |
| Turan Ahmadova |
University of South Florida |
| Leanne Salazar Montoya |
Griselda Vargas |
Texas State University |
| Juanita Galaviz |
Texas State University |
| Margaret Thornton |
Sonji Walker |
San Francisco State University |
| Jamela Joseph |
Howard University |
| Martin Scanlan |
Arisandy Johnson |
Arizona State University |
| Myan Wright |
University of New Orleans |
| Patricia Virella |
Eduardo Torrecillas |
Arkansas State University |
| Maha Azzazi |
University of Dayton |
| Lizette Navarrete-Burks |
Andrea St John, M.Ed. |
Boston University |
| Xiaoli Li |
University of Dayton |
| Jiangang Xia |
Yubin Jang |
University of Delaware |
| Le Rosie Xiu |
University of Southern California |
| Katrina Struloeff |
Shanae Neal |
Southern Methodist University |