Funded by BRESI
Date: October 7, 2022
Featured Speaker(s)
Teresa Michael Liu is the Associate Director of International Admissions and Recruitment at Baruch College, having started the department 10 years ago. She has a passion for cross-cultural exchange, DEI work and international education, drawing on the expertise gained through her Peace Corps service in East Timor, her MS in Non-Profit Management/International Affairs from The New School and active involvement in DEI work both at Baruch College, her local community in Queens and all spaces in between.
Kristy Clementina Perez is the Director of Baruch College’s Percy E. Sutton SEEK Program. SEEK is a Higher Education Opportunity Program. She is also the founding Director of the Urban Male Leadership Academy Scholars (UMLA) Program, which aims to develop and promote the academic excellence, social consciousness and leadership skills of Black and Latino male college SEEK students at Baruch. Kristy possesses over 20 years of professional experience in the field of urban education. Prior to joining Baruch, Kristy served as a high school English teacher and earned a BA in English from Douglass College at Rutgers University, a MSW with a concentration in Community Organization, Planning & Development from Hunter College School of Social Work and her Ed.D. from Rutgers Graduate School of Education with a concentration in Education, Culture and Society.