Masibonge NGIDI-BROWN, PhD

Oversee diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEI-B) for the City of Portland, supporting 1,800+ employees.

• Leading a City-wide strategic planning process, with the leadership team, as well as across all departments, designed to incorporate DEI-B work into the City's organizational structures
• Updating HR employee data collection and organization platforms and functions to best serve HR decision-making in support City employees
• Overseeing the building of the Office of DEI managing resources, partnerships, scope of mission, and functions
• Serve as a member of the senior leadership team and work directly with department directors to build out their department-specific DEI-B models and frameworks

Director of the DEI Co-curricular Programs - Includes FLI@Colby (First Generation Low Income Program); and the International Student Program. These programs support a total of 540 students out of 2100 at Colby.

• Developed the strategic plan for the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; and establish the trajectory, mission and vision of both these new programs
• Collaborated with Education Advisory Board (EAB) and First Gen Forward for program evaluation and best practices
• Advocated for, and created partnerships campus wide in order to ensure equity and access for all students - lead policy and systemic procedural changes
• Facilitated off campus experiential learning opportunities to bridge the gap between campus and the surrounding community for FLI and International students
• Amplified the contributions of student populations who are historically underrepresented
• Managed the total budgets of $420,000 for the two programs
• Recruited, hired and supervised full time staff and student staff
• Co-lead fund raising campaigns with the Office of Advancement - large scale priority campaigns and micro-campaigns and raised $153,000 in school year 2021/22, and $366,000 in 2022/23.

• Became an immediate contributor in 4 current projects for the Behavioral and Social Outcomes program of the Army Public Health Center (APHC).
• Developed the first draft of the Army Public Health Center, BSHOP "Lessons Learned Document" that documented the research conducted and recommendations made from Behavioral Health Epidemiologic Consultations (BH EPICONs) in the U.S. and across the world from 2010 to 2019.
• Project lead for "Loneliness" Campaign designed and distributed for the Korea U.S. Army Base.
• Analyzed and interpreted qualitative data to determine themes and trends in behavioral and social health outcomes
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary team members to provide qualitative insight & support to conduct behavioral and social health studies and related program evaluations
• Contributed to the development of recommendations regarding behavioral & social threat reduction techniques
• Delivered & developed qualitative data collection tools and deliverables
• Contributed to publications disseminating findings from research from BSHOP projects through the development and execution of technical reports, scholarly manuscripts and professional presentations about public health studies, field studies and program evaluation projects

• Analyzed, & evaluated first year students grades, attendance, demographics, course selection & other general student data
• Contributed longitudinal data gathering techniques - using empirical research & current educational best practices - to help inform and build program evaluation tools & determine organizational goals & direction
• Utilized institutional & independent data management & analysis platforms like HPLAN, Google Suite, Canvas, Hopsins
• Co-Lead collaborative campus programs with departments, offices & leaders to build a network to facilitate wholesome student support, advocacy, and skill development
• Designed curriculum for in-coming students for the Summer Bridge Program to orient & prepare students for college
• Trained & managed 4 instructors to teach Summer Bridge Curriculum

• Built the foundation of Mind & Life's first attempt to engage people of difference, disenfranchised individuals, and the under-represented with similar ideals and aspirations through programming
• Through creating and managing relationships, connected the well-funded scientific and research communities with their resources and lessons to communities that could benefit from scientific research
• Drafted, edit, formatted & organized organizational diversity initiatives
• Advised the president on approaches to diversity & inclusion, particularly in organizational programming

Executed programs advancing the Goucher College Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), a diversity initiative that provides opportunities to marginalized students who would otherwise not be academically eligible to attend Goucher College and a liberal arts education.

• Coordinated & executed academic and cultural adjustment programming for incoming students in and outside the classroom
• Collaborated with the Assistant Dean for Multicultural Student Services and the Dean of Students to coordinate daily and long-term engagement for students that encouraged a global consciousness on and off campus
• Contributed to compiling program reports relating to diversity and inclusion for funders and institutional data gathering