Anna Camacho Chosen as SMCCCD Classified Employee of the Year
Tue, 28 March, 2017 at 12:25 pmAnna Camacho Chosen as SMCCCD Classified Employee of the Year
Cañada’s own, Anna Camacho (STEM Project Director) was chosen by the Board of Trustees as SMCCCD Classified Employee of the Year. Having served as both an Assistant Project Director and a Project Director for a number of federally funded grant programs at Cañada College, Anna has provided leadership and support in developing a number of successful initiatives to increase student interest and awareness of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields and promote academic success of our students, especially those from underrepresented and underserved backgrounds.
Anna was instrumental in founding
the STEM Center at
Cañada College in 2012. Under her leadership, the STEM Center team successfully developed new grant proposals to support
innovative student
support programs. As a result, Cañada College was
awarded a five-year, $4.35 million
dollar US Department
of Education Hispanic-Serving Institution STEM and Articulation grant. Initiatives being developed
for this new grant-funded program, under her leadership, include: Chemistry Jam, Difference-Education Intervention, expansion of the STEM Speaker Series,
STEM Exploration Week,
university transfer workshops, a professional development program for STEM faculty, and a STEM faculty community
of practice.
In addition to her professional duties, Anna is also a founding member of Latinas in STEM2
to Achieve Success
(LISTAS), an organization dedicated
to increase the number of Latinas attaining a STEM education. She is
also
a consultant for Unite Here 2,
a union that represents
service workers, where she delivers
workshops that impact
knowledge on how to apply for college.
Additionally, Anna contributes to the education
and research community by presenting and publishing the results
of her work at national professional organizations including the American
Society for Engineering Education, Alliance
of Hispanic-Serving Institution Educators, and the League for Innovation in the Community College.