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Patricia Mestas Vigil, PhD, serves as the Director of University Partnerships and Student Success and Director of the Alliance Partnership University Relations at Colorado State University. The Alliance mission is to foster a college-going culture with ten Colorado high schools mainly composed of historically underrepresented, low-income, first-generation, and racially and ethnically diverse students.

Dr. Vigil, a psychologist in the Counseling Center for several years, was also the Associate Director of Onboard Life and the Director of the Counseling Center aboard The ScholarShip, an ocean-going university where over 200 individuals from fifty different countries built a transnational community through relationship development, goal collaboration, and development of intercultural communication skills, while exploring ten different countries.

Dr. Vigil is a Fellow for the Executive Leadership Academy at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley, an American Psychological Minority Fellow, and a founder of the Colorado Coalition for the Educational Advancement of Latinx. She chairs the CSU Multicultural Staff and Faculty Network, teaches Psychology of Diversity and Chicanx History and Culture, and provides training in diversity, equity, inclusion, and Restorative Justice at the local, national, and international levels.