Silvia Caraballo
Senior Staff Specialist
Silvia Caraballo
Senior Staff Specialist
Bio
Silvia Caraballo is the Senior Staff Specialist for the AdvanceRIT program. She assists the program director with program management needs and provides administrative support to the AdvanceRIT program's employees. Silvia also facilitates project efforts and maintains administrative data and information regarding the program's objectives. Prior to joining AdvanceRIT in September 2020, she worked in various research and managerial office positions where she gained valuable experience working with directors, researchers, faculty, administrators, and minority groups at RIT. This included working in the Office of Faculty Diversity Recruitment. During the NSF AdvanceRIT NSF-Institutional Transformation grant, Silvia was a graduate research assistant in the projects and literature reviews and data collection of Women of Color Research studies.
Silvia is currently member of the Our Lady of Mercy Diversity and Inclusion Parent sub-committee, and is a researcher and members of the Sankofa Communiversity Intl, a non-for-profit organization focusing in an intergenerational collaborative of research, scholarship, and activism with shared commitments to rigorous research and critical inquiry.
Silvia is pursuing a Ph.D. in Human Development at the University of Rochester with a cognitive-behavioral development concentration. Research focuses on environmental health as a component of environmental performance and how health is affected by national culture and community development. Her goal is to use AdvanceRIT objectives to implement program design and ensure the plans are managed efficiently to improve—the quality of women faculty's advancement in academia and leadership roles.