Leadership Team

Nancy Maingi Ngwu

Nancy Maingi Ngwu

Strategic Dialogue Director, CU Dialogues Program
CU Engage | School of Education
Nancy Maingi Ngwu is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at CU. She studies organizational communication. Her research generally engages how organizational actors at the margins of society communicatively organize to manage, resist, and remake oppressive structures. As a practitioner, she designs dialogues on systemic inequities and trains organizational members/leaders to dialogue on and organize toward equitable, diverse and inclusive practices, policies, and procedures. She is currently a...
Steve Sommer

Steve Sommer

Graduate Research Assistant, CU Dialogues Program
CU Engage | School of Education
Stephen Sommer is a dual doctoral candidate in the Learning Sciences and Human Development Program (Education) and the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is one of the co-facilitators of the DEI-Informed Dailogic Pedagogy Micro-credential.

Additional Staff & GRAs

Melissa Rubin

Melissa Rubin

Administrative Assistant, CU Dialogues Program
CU Engage | School of Educaion
Melissa Rubin is the CU Dialogues Program Administrator . Melissa has worked at the University of Colorado for over 15 years doing Administrative and Organizational support for programs focussed on Community-Based and Engaged learning. She completed her BA in Religious Studies and a Certificate in the Study and Practice of Leadership through the INVST Community Leadership Program.
Maria Vielma

Maria Vielma

PhD Student
EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS • POLICY & PRACTICE | School of Education
Maria G. Vielma is a Ph.D. student in Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research has largely centered on the lived experiences of Latinas and women of color within higher education themes like femtorship and confianza. Her work with CU Dialogues focuses on dialogue curriculum design.