Emeritus Staff
Marion Williamson Blalock
Ms. Marion Williamson Blalock, a national leader who devoted over 30 years of her life to recruiting, retaining, and graduating underrepresented (URM) students in the College of Engineering officially retired, in August of 2008.
Darryl Dickerson
Darryl Dickerson, PhD., began working full-time for MEP in 2012. In 2014, he became the Associate Director of MEP with a priority on research focused on diversity programming geared towards increasing the number of underrepresented minorities matriculating in engineering.
Michele Lezama
Michele Lezama, M.S. and MBA, was the Graduate and Organizational Diversity Strategist for Purdue University's Minority Engineering Program (MEP). In this role, she was responsible for recruiting domestic underrepresented graduate students for Purdue's College of Engineering.
Allene Manning
Allene Manning was the Associate Director of Student Services and Development within the Purdue MBA and Master's Programs Team from 2013-2016.
Cinthia Sanchez
Cinthia Sanchez, Ph.D., began working full-time for the Minority Engineering Program as the Outreach and Retention Administrator after earning her Ph.D. degree in Biological Sciences from Purdue University in 2014.
Carol Stwalley
Carol Stwalley, Ph.D. PE joined the MEP team in the fall of 2007 part time to develop a comprehensive database to evaluate MEP signature programs as well as establish trend lines in outreach, recruitment, enrollment, retention, and graduation rates for underrepresented students.