Norma Hernandez

Dr. Norma Jimenez Hernandez currently serves as an external evaluator for a federally-funded program at ASU. She is a former faculty member in psychology at Arizona State University, West Campus. For six years, Dr. Hernandez worked at Estrella Mountain Community College (EMCC), a Hispanic-serving community college where 55% of their student body is of Hispanic descent. While at EMCC, Dr. Hernandez directed the Honors Program, served as chapter advisor for Phi Theta Kappa leading the organization to several regional and international awards, initiated a faculty advising program, and co-chaired the Diversity Committee. Most recently, Dr. Hernandez has focused her work on the effects of material hardship on persistence and academic achievement for community college students and is working with community partners to creatively access resources for those students in greatest need of food, housing and cash assistance and was one of a handful of individuals in the country who received a F.A.S.T. Fund grant to help students in financial need. During the summer 2019, Dr. Hernandez served as a fellow in the E. Kika de la Garza Fellowship through the United States Department of Agriculture.

Dr. Hernandez has actively leveraged her academic and professional energies to benefit populations on the periphery of society. She has completed anthropological fieldwork projects throughout the world, applying her training and research in several Latin American countries including Mexico, Honduras and Panama. Dr. Hernandez has served as an independent consultant, taught in a variety of racially concentrated public-school settings including Boston, Los Angeles, Oakland and the greater Phoenix area and at the university level, including the Harvard Graduate School of Education, UCLA, Arizona State University, and Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Hernandez completed her Ed.D. and Ed.M. in Human Development and Psychology at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, her M.A. in Sociocultural Anthropology at U.C. Berkeley and her B.A. in Psychology at Concordia University. She has more than 20 years of experience teaching and conducting research.

Education

• Ed.D., Harvard Graduate School of Education (2002)
• M.A., University of California Berkeley (1995)
• Ed.M., Harvard Graduate School of Education (1994)
• B.A., Concordia University (1993)

Companies

• Executive Director, WiscAMP (Wisconsin Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation) University of Wisconsin-Madison (2021)
• Partner and Director of Research Design and Evaluation Sisterhood for Equity Consulting (2020)
• Co-Founder Sisterhood for Equity Consulting (2020)
• External Evaluator/Psychology Instructor Arizona State University (2015)
• Psychology Faculty Riverside Community College District (2020 — 2021)
• Dissertation Consultant American Dream Consortium (2011 — 2020)
• Psychology Professor Estrella Mountain Community College (2013 — 2019)
• External Evaluator Maricopa Community Colleges (2012 — 2013)
• Assistant Professor of Education Claremont Graduate University (2004 — 2009)