Emerging Leaders Fellowship Program – Center for Reimagining Leadership

The Emerging Leaders Fellowship (ELF) Program mentors and empowers an interdisciplinary cohort of transformative faculty from historically underrepresented backgrounds, supports them in amplifying their research excellence, and builds a community where these faculty can lead and thrive.

Program Leadership

Program Director, Associate Teaching Professor Giulia Gurun, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Faculty Mentor, Assistant Teaching Professor, Amy Argenal, Community-Engaged Research and Learning- Sociology
Faculty Mentor, Assistant Teaching Professor, Marcela Alfaro-Córdoba, Statistics

Program Description

We focus our mentorship on three areas: (1) pedagogy and teaching, (2) grant writing, and (3) merit review and promotion. Our fellows work closely with divisional teaching professor mentors, and as an interdisciplinary learning community, to develop thoughtful and inclusive teaching and mentoring practices. CRL Advisory Board and Faculty Affiliate mentors also provide individual support for both advancing fellows’ research programs and showcasing their excellence through the merit review process, while also co-creating a community of care.

We provide additional ad hoc grant writing support to several more early career faculty members as CRL affiliates. Our grant support program has already attracted more than $3.5M in extramural funding to UCSC in its first year. The SLF Program currently supports fellows across in two divisions: Physical and Biological Sciences and Engineering. When programmatic funding and staff support permit, we hope to expand it to all five academic Divisions.