Contact Us

Victor Sáenz -Department Chair

Phone: (512) 232-7519
Email: vsaenz@austin.utexas.edu

David DeMatthews - Associate Chair

Phone: (512) 232-2413
Email: ddematthews@austin.utexas.edu

Sarah Woulfin - Graduate Studies Committee (GSC) Chair

Email: sarah.woulfin@austin.utexas.edu

Liliana Garces - GSC Vice Chair

Email: liliana_garces@utexas.edu

Norma Cantú -Minority Liaison Officer

Phone: (512) 475-8593
Email: ncantu@law.utexas.edu

Jennifer Holme - Graduate Advisor 
The graduate advisor supports academic and administrative matters required by the UT-Austin Graduate School including petitions, graduation applications, doctoral candidacy applications, changes in doctoral committees, requests for final oral, candidacy extensions, conditions on admission, course add/drop and grade status changes, petitions for later registration, withdrawals and semester cancellations, and scholastic status.

Phone: (512) 475-9398
Email: jholme@austin.utexas.edu

Liliana Garces - Program Co-Coordinator

Email: liliana_garces@utexas.edu

Michael Goodman - Program Co-Coordinator

Email: michael.goodman@austin.utexas.edu

Lauren Schudde - Program Co-Coordinator

Phone: (512) 471-1623
Email: schudde@austin.utexas.edu

Michael Nava - Ed.D. Program Faculty Director

Phone: (512) 680-2746
Email: michael.nava@austin.utexas.edu 

Joe Wilcox - Ed.D. Program Director

Phone: (512) 425-0919
Email: joe.wilcox@austin.utexas.edu

Paul Cruz - Program Co-Coordinator

Email: paul.cruz@austin.utexas.edu

Pedro Reyes - Program Co-Coordinator

Phone: (512) 475-8569
Email: preyes@austin.utexas.edu

Huriya Jabbar - Ph.D. Program Coordinator

Email: jabbar@austin.utexas.edu

Christopher Brown - Master's Program Coordinator

Email: cpbrown@utexas.edu

Debra Cantu - Co-Director

Phone: (512) 471-6137
Email: debra.cantu@austin.utexas.edu

Terrance Green - Co-Director

Email: tgreen@austin.utexas.edu 

Joanna Drake - Accounts Manager

Phone: (512) 471-4384
Email: joanna.drake@austin.utexas.edu

See Joanna for financial matters including account balances, account transactions, budgets, faculty purchases, purchase orders, business contracts and sponsorships.

Violeta Gonzales - Project Director

Phone: (512) 232-6226
Email: violeta.gonzales@austin.utexas.edu

Violeta manages the Wallace Foundation Grant, provides equity-centered professional and leadership development and supports the development of the Texas Principal Leadership Academy.

Jacinda Herrera - Academic Program Coordinator

Phone: (512) 475-8580
Email: j.herrera@austin.utexas.edu

See Jacinda for course scheduling, course instructor surveys, grade reporting, FaSET reporting, catalog changes, course inventory changes, and student support.

Wintana Hansen - Administrative Associate

Phone: (512) 471-0727
Email: wintana.hansen@austin.utexas.edu

Wintana manages the Education Research Center (ERC). She oversees the ERC researcher onboarding, scheduling, purchasing and payment processes.

Diamond Lowe - Administrative Associate

Phone: (512) 475-8591
Email: diamond.lowe@austin.utexas.edu

See Diamond for room reservations not related to course scheduling, the department chair's calendar, event coordination, travel coordination, purchasing and payment processes.

Aaron Pyle - Administrative Manager

Phone: (512) 475-8578
Email: aaron.pyle@austin.utexas.edu

See Aaron for Human Resources (Student, Staff and Faculty Appointments), Faculty Promotion and Tenure, Faculty Third-year Reviews, Staff Annual Performance and department events.

Kelsey Samsel - Graduate Program Administrator

Phone: (512) 475-8570
Email: ELPGradCoordinator@austin.utexas.edu

See Kelsey for graduate program coordination needs as well as outreach, admissions, recruitment, orientation, registration and graduation activities.