Shirley Ramirez: Shirley Ramirez: Diversity and Organizational Change
Shirley Ramirez
VP for Inst'l Planning and Diversity; Asst. Prof. of Psychology
Old Chapel 102
Phone: (802) 443 - 5615
Fax: (802) 443 - 3296
Email: ramirezs@middlebury.edu
Topics she can discuss include: - institutional diversity at Middlebury
- racism and coping responses
- organizational behavior and organizational change
Shirley Ramirez is the Dean for Institutional Diversity at Middlebury College. She joined the staff in January of 2007 and is responsible for ensuring that diversity issues are an integral aspect of all institutional initiatives and strategic planning.
Previously, Ramirez was the executive vice president of the New York City-based Posse Foundation, which identifies, recruits and selects outstanding student leaders from public high schools to form multicultural teams that go on to top universities and colleges nationwide, including Middlebury, which has participated since 1999. Ramirez herself was one of the students in the very first Posse in 1989, whose members attended Vanderbilt University. She is also the first Posse Scholar to receive a doctorate.
She has taught as an adjunct assistant professor at New York University and the Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at New School University, as well as at Georgetown University and George Mason University. As a clinical psychologist, she has worked extensively with multicultural populations struggling with trauma including sexual abuse, political torture, hate crimes, and domestic violence.
Ramirez earned her undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University in human and organizational development and psychology, and her masters and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from Duke University.
