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Diana Martinez, MPH

Public health practitioner, educator, and thought leader within Health Equity and Social and Racial Justice with over 18 years of experience within academia, policy, and community-based work. Diana is the founding director of the Learning Environment Office (LEO) at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences center, which was launched under her leadership in 2019. Diana has brought public health, systems transformation, civil rights, and equity frameworks to advance LEO’s mission, which is to foster an inclusive learning environment where teachers, staff, and learners thrive, and where relationships are mutually respectful and beneficial to each other and to institutional climate. Since its launch, LEO has grown from a team of 1 full-time staff member to a team of 18, including staff and faculty, making it one of the most robustly resourced offices of its kind. Diana’s broad experiences are in designing, overseeing, implementing, and evaluating initiatives to increase equity for urban, tribal, and rural communities and communities of color across New Mexico (NM). With over 18 years at UNM as an institutional leader bridging academic and research culture with educators, administrators, and community leaders to cultivate the talents of NM’s diverse communities. She has secured over $8m in federal and local funding to build collaborations to improve educational and health outcomes through policy and programs. Diana is completing a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) at Johns Hopkins University with a concentration in Health Equity and Social Justice. Her dissertation research is focused on structural and systemic root causes, drivers, and inhibitors of learner mistreatment in academic medicine. Diana is married to Javier Martínez; they often work collaboratively as they see their professional lives as intertwined and synergistic. They have two treasured children, Marisela and Camilo. Daughter of a critical race scholar and mathematician, Diana’s passion is intersectional equity and justice, and brings this passion to her roles as a public health practitioner, educator, innovator, and her most prized role: mother.

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