Global History and Social Sciences Department Head Yolanda Wilcox González was one of 29 educators selected for the 2024 Aspiring Latino Leaders Fellowship. This esteemed fellowship recognizes exceptional Latino professionals within the education sector in Massachusetts, providing hands-on training experiences and professional development to strengthen fellows’ leadership potential.
This year’s fellows range from math instructors to school counselors to principals across a diverse range of higher education institutions and K-12 schools. Yolanda’s inclusion in this year’s fellowship is a testament to her impact as an educator and her commitment to bettering the education sector.
Yolanda joined the Beaver community in 2011, bringing a wide range of experiences and expertise from her time as a draftsperson for an engineers’ consortium, a social worker helping adjudicated youth reintegrate into their communities, and a teacher in Philadelphia and New England. At Beaver, Yolanda has taught courses on criminology and penology, theories of justice, environmental anthropology, urbanism, and identity, race, and class, focusing on broadening historical perspectives and challenging dominant cultural narratives. She has shared her work at conferences such as EduCon 2.7, PoCC, ISEEN, ISTE, and SXSWEdu.
