Our Team

At CMDI, inclusion is everyone’s job. Our focused team of experts is charged with ensuring our community meets its ambitious goals around supporting students, faculty and staff while making our college a welcome home for different ideas, approaches, backgrounds and visions for transforming creativity into impact.

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Danielle Hodge

Assistant Professor

danielle.hodge@colorado.edu

Danielle Hodge, PhD, is an assistant professor of communication and a past faculty fellow in the university’s Center for African and African American Studies. Her research employs a critical race theoretical approach to identity, culture and language, bridging communication and African American studies to examine how systems of oppression are discursively reproduced, maintained and resisted. Her work can be found in the Journal of Multicultural Discourses, Critical Discourse Studies, Communication Teacher, Communication and Democracy, and Journal of Applied Communication Research. She leads CMDI’s Inclusive Pedagogy Series.Ìý
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David Martinez

Inclusive Excellence and Outreach Coordinator

david.martinez@colorado.edu

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Dave Martinez grew up as part of an amazing migrant family in rural Colorado, for whom education was not a priority. That’s why education—and the potential for a college degree to transform families—has become a passion for him, from running the precollege Pathways program to serving as a mentor to countless classes of students. He has forged relationships with students that extend well beyond their time in college, including attending weddings and baptisms alongside CMDI alumni. Among his accolades: the President’s Inclusive Excellence Award, a three-time winner of the Marinus Smith Award and winner of the Robert L. Stearns Award.

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Sara Jamieson
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Associate Teaching Professor

sara.jamieson@colorado.edu

Sara Jamieson is the founding faculty director of Connections Summer Academy—a precollege program for Colorado high school students—and an associate teaching professor of the Communication and Society Residential Academic Program, or CommRAP. An anthropologist, Jamieson has worked with urban Native American Wayuu communities in Venezuela and Colombia to understand how their traditional forms of education and other cultural practices have changed as they engaged with Western systems. The experience of seeing young people enthusiastically pursuing college degrees in search of brighter futures inspired her to take up her work with Connections and CommRAP.
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