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Yuridia Hernandez-Osorio

Invitation to Latinx Employees: Let’s Get Together

October 27, 2017

All University community members who identify as Latinx (Latino/Latina/Chicano/a/Hispanic, etc.) and work at UP in any capacity, including adjunct, faculty, staff, and administration, are invited to contact Yuri Hernández Osorio, who serves as diversity & inclusion program coordinator in students activities. Hernández Osorio hopes to form an informal group for Latinx employees. She hopes to create an email list so the group can stay in contact, organize events, and share trainings and resources. The overall mission is to gather and provide informal support to each other. To join the group or for more information contact Hernández Osorio at hernandy@up.edu.

Filed Under: 10-16-2017, 10-30-2017, Campus Services Tagged With: Student Activities, Yuridia Hernandez-Osorio

New Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator: Yuridia Hernandez-Osorio

August 11, 2017

Yuridia Hernandez-Osorio joined the Office of Student Activities on August 3, 2017, as the new coordinator for diversity and inclusion programs, according to Jeromy Koffler, student activities. She is a 2015 University of Portland graduate with a bachelor of arts in social work, and won the Joseph S. Gallegos Award for Outstanding Service and Leadership in Social Work that same year. Since her time at UP, Yuri completed her masters of social work at the University of Michigan, where she served as an intern at Wayne State University’s Latino/a and Latin American Studies Center.

For more information contact student activities at 7470 or stuact@up.edu.

Filed Under: 08-07-2017, 08-14-2017, Campus Services Tagged With: Student Activities, Yuridia Hernandez-Osorio

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