Dr. Gordon-Mora is the University of Nevada, Reno’s University Diversity and Inclusion Officer (UDIO) since June 2019. This new position, which directly responds to the Office of the President, reflects the university’s evolving commitments to advancing the mission-inscribed values of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in a university-wide strategic basis. Before this, and during the past ten years, she was Dean of the School of Social Science, Humanities and Communication at Universidad Ana G. Méndez (UAGM); and Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, both in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Prior to relocating to Puerto Rico, she was Vice-President for Government Affairs at Safe Horizon, New York State’s largest nonprofit organization serving victims of violence; the first full-time executive director of the philanthropic organization, Daphne Foundation; and, the executive director of El Barrio Popular Education Program, an academically-recognized, action-based research project of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, at Hunter College.

As an educator and political scientist, she has focused on issues connected to poverty and globalization, community organizing and urban politics, post-authoritarian/delegative democracies, and politics in Latin America and the Caribbean and has taught at Bates College in Lewiston, ME; Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile; Marymount Manhattan College and Eugene Lang College of the New School for Social Research, both in New York City, and at UAGM, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her research interests include higher education, diversity and inclusion, democratic theory, social violence, and post-colonial and post-structuralist critical literature. She is currently the new chair of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Council, which directly responds to the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE).