NCID-3251
Nicole DelMastro-Jeffery
Executive Director for DEIB-A & Title IX & Environmental Justice Researcher
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & Richland Community College
Education/Degree:
1 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
About
Nicole M. DelMastro-Jeffery holds a doctorate in Education Policy, Organization and Leadership. Nicole’s research focuses on the intersection of community determinants of health and educational trajectories of marginalized collegians. Her quantitative approach to mapping proximity of educational institutions to quality basic needs, such as access to clean drinking water, is a genuine passion of hers. Over the past decade she has served in a variety of leadership roles across 2-year and 4-year colleges. Nicole is excited about the future upstream sustainable transdisciplinary approach to ensuring students’ physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing on their way to graduation.
Current Work
Empirical evidence shows that proximity to environmental toxins is likely to impair mental and physical health. Scholarship indicates that college students from under-resourced communities are less likely to fare well in college but have yet to include environmental injustice in the analysis of student wellbeing. Yet the fight for environmental and racial justice are inextricably linked.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Racial equity in higher education, environmental justice, quality basic needs, justice, racial colonial capitalism