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Portrait of Essie Torres

Director of Research Workforce Strategy and Community Partnerships

312 South Building

CB 4000

Email: Essie.Torres@unc.edu
Ph: 919-962-1319

Responsibilities

Essie Torres is tasked with assuring the OVCR’s commitment to a diverse and welcoming research community that upholds the highest standards of inclusive excellence. She is developing a coordinated strategy for expanding community partnerships, diversifying human subjects research programs, and recruiting and investing in faculty, trainees, students, and research staff that better reflects a culturally diverse intellectual community. She also collaborates with stakeholders across campus to develop research opportunities that advance inclusivity.

Biography

Essie Torres earned her doctoral degree in human development in educational contexts from the University of Rochester and a Master of Public Health from State University of New York at Albany.

Administrative Staff

Lyndsey Suarez provides administrative support to Essie Torres.

Email: battl@unc.edu
Ph: 919-445-9640