The goal is to move the needle on equipping a largely first-generation student population with the educational experiences and skills they will need to become first-generation professionals in STEAM fields. In addition to the technology and grants, Apple is providing experts to help design the space and the programming, which will be essential to position learners for success in college and in the workforce. “This partnership with Apple is going to help us be bold and innovative about blurring the lines between the physical space, which is the hub, and the virtual space,” says Dr. Quintero’s visionary leadership, this initiative will work to transform HSIs nationally to increase student success and equip Latinx and other minoritized and historically excluded students with skills for careers in STEAM.
The Global HSI Equity Innovation Hub, launched in partnership with Apple, will make a significant impact on first-generation college students throughout the nation, connecting diverse talent to opportunity. Quintero currently serves as the Senior Advisor to the President for Inclusive Excellence and as the Equity Innovation Officer of the Global HSI Equity Innovation Hub at California State University, Northridge. A leading content expert on Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and recognized student success innovator, Dr. Quintero dedicates her career to ensuring that other first-generation college students have the same opportunities she had. It was the moment she began to believe she had what it took - that she belonged.
That chance encounter changed her entire trajectory. It wasn’t until the last semester of her senior year that a substitute teacher first encouraged her to apply to a university. As the daughter of immigrant parents who weren’t familiar with higher education, the expectation was that she’d find a job once she finished high school. For most of Amanda Quintero’s childhood, going to college wasn’t an option.
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