Bio
Dr. Alvarez has used an inclusive excellence lens and approach to her work throughout her career. At IUPUI, she led a comprehensive student activities office that included student organizations, civic engagement, multicultural student engagement, fraternity and sorority life, campus programming, first-year programs, and student government. She also served as a coordinator in the office at IUPUI that she later went on to direct, Campus and Community Life, where she was responsible for cultural heritage month programming, a diversity and leadership program series, the Student Activities Programming Board, and campus-wide diversity education initiatives. Dr. Alvarez earned a PhD in college student personnel from the University of Maryland in 2011. She has a master's degree in higher education and student affairs and a bachelor's degree in criminal justice with minors in sociology and Spanish; both degrees were earned at Indiana University in Bloomington. She has served on the Diversity Advisory Council since September 2018.