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OC Live Speaker Event: Sara Rex on “Elevated Communications for a Changing World”
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Mark your calendars and join OC Live as we kick-off this season's events with motivational speaker, consultant and strategist, Sara Rex. Find your voice in this inspirational presentation and workshop on Wednesday, September 14th, at 6pm in the Oxnard College Performing Arts Building (PAB). "Elevated Communications for a Changing World" is a FREE event and ASL English interpretation will be provided. You won't want to miss this opportunity to discover core leadership tenets and how to transform and activate your excellence in these challenging times.
Sara Rex is a passionate strategist, consultant and motivational speaker. Her role as Executive Strategist & Coach gives rise to her commitment to excellence, talent activation and cultivating leadership capabilities within corporations, classrooms and communities. Proven student success, breakthrough corporate results and sustained culture and community change are hallmarks of Sara’s leadership effectiveness. She is a truly dynamic leader committed to disrupting inherent fragilities, transforming, and activating excellence within everyone whom she engages. Over her 25-year career, Sara has developed operational strategies and drives enterprise-wide Lean Sigma process standardization initiatives to advance organizational capability, maturity, and achieve results for her clients.
As a change agent, Sara is a recognized community leader and youth advocate striving to create opportunities, equity and access for the underserved. Through this passion, Sara founded SPEAK, Inc. and has designed countless transformational scholastic programs and curriculum products that improve the outcomes of youth by focusing on five core leadership tenets - service, philanthropy, excellence, achievement and knowledge. Sara leverages the dynamic SPEAK delivery model to develop emerging youth leaders through a masterful blend of ASQ Six Sigma caliber problem solving, critical thinking, situational and facilitative leadership models. The SPEAK Leadership Program and Curriculum is taught in several CA schools and has awarded future-focused scholarships and internships to students across the nation.
Sara received a Bachelor’s degree from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. and studied Software Engineering at the University of Maryland. After a brief teaching career in Washington, DC. Sara combined her passion for teaching with her academic studies in biology and systems engineering to pursue a healthcare consulting career. She served as a Senior Consultant within the Department of Defense (DoD) amassing process engineering, organizational change management and operational excellence expertise. Beyond the DoD, Sara holds several key leadership positions within Kaiser Permanente (Executive Director), SPEAK, Inc (Founder & CEO), Singer Burke Zimmer, LLC (COO) and the National Association for Securities Professionals (Program Director).
Through her work, the SPEAK Classroom and Community Programs have received awards from the CA. State Assembly, CA State Senate, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the NAACP. She currently resides in Santa Clarita, CA. with her husband Todd Rex, and their three children Zoe, Zion and Maximus.
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Oxnard College Performing Arts Building
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Transfer Application Boot Camp
All Day Event
Transfer Application Boot Camp
deadline to register: Tuesday, 08/16/2022
register @ https://bit.ly/UTCBootcamp
Are you planning to apply to the UC and/or CSU system for Spring 2023 or Fall 2023 admission? The application process takes time, and the UTC Team is offering a 3-day Boot Camp to help you!
The Transfer Application Boot Camp is as follows:
when: Tuesday, 08/23 - Thursday, 08/25
time: 2pm - 5pm
format: In Person
register: deadline is Tuesday, 08/16 to save your seat
additional info: must be able to attend all 3 days
Benefits to being part of the Boot Camp cohort include:
- Early completion of Transfer Applications
- Individualized assistance
- Priority review of admission application, UC PIQ, and open-ended responses
Space is limited for this 3-day workshop - sign up today!
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Location
Oxnard College
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Daisy Carranza
Program Coordinator
Education
California State University Channel Islands, BA Psychology
California State University San Bernardino, Masters Public Administration Concentration in Leadership
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Paloma Vargas
Dean of Math, Science, Health Education, Kinesiology and Athletics
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Education
Ph.D. Biomedical Science (Molecular/Biochemical Parasitology NYU Vilcek Institute for Biomedical Sciences (2010)
M.S. Medical and Molecular Parasitology, NYU Vilcek Institute for Biomedical Sciences (2007)
B.S. Biology, Minor in Chemistry University of Texas at El Paso (2005)
El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX
About
Dr. Paloma Vargas (she/they/ella) is the Dean of Mathematics, Science, Health Education, Kinesiology and Athletics at Oxnard College, a 2-year public Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). In her capacity as Dean, Dr. Vargas works with administration, faculty, and staff to determine best practices in serving a diverse student population. Dr. Vargas received her B.S. in Biology from the University of Texas at El Paso and El Paso Community College (HSIs), and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Medical and Molecular Parasitology from The Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at New York University. Her graduate and post-doctoral work focused on host-pathogen interactions of both parasitic amoeba (E. histolytica) and Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaire’s Disease. Dr. Vargas previously served as a biology faculty member, researcher, HSI Director, Science Coordinator and STEM Advisor at private and public institutions.
Dr. Vargas has extensive experience in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion work. Her focus has been on dismantling policies that negatively impact Black, Latinx, and Native American/Indigenous students in higher education. She has served as a facilitator and trainer for faculty at Hispanic-Serving Institutions in centering equity with a particular focus on inclusivity in STEM. Dr. Vargas is an active member of the Aspiring Radical Leaders Institute, the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Latinos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS), and serves as President of the Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institute Educators (AHSIE).
Publications
Wilton, M., Vargas, P., Prevost, L. et al.(2022), Moving towards More Diverse and Welcoming Conference Spaces: Data-Driven Perspectives from Biology Education Research Scholars. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education (23) 10.1128/jmbe.00048-22.
Vargas, P.*, Ward, M.G., Gina A. Garcia (editor). (2020). Building an HSI Brand: A Case Study of California Lutheran University. Defining “Servingness” in Practice at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). Information Age Publishing.
Simeon, T.*, Vargas, P.*, Olfet, J.O., Rutschman, D., Sztainberg, M. (2016). The Student Center for Science Engagement (SCSE): An Urban Hispanic Serving Institution Model of Achievement for STEM Undergraduate Recruitment and Retention. 9th Annual Mentoring Conference Proceedings: Developmental Networks: The Power of Mentoring and Coaching. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. *Authors contributed equally to work and are co-first authors.
Tyson, J.Y.*, Vargas, P.*, Cianciotto, N.P. (2014). The novel Legionella pneumophila type II secretion substrate NttC contributes to infection of amoebae Hartmannella vermiformis and Willaertia magna. Microbiology. 160 (Part 12): 2732-44. *Authors contributed equally to work and are co-first authors.
Tyson, J.Y., Pearce, M., Vargas, P., Bagchi, S., Mulhern, B.J., Cianciotto, N.P. (2013). Multiple Legionella pneumophila type II secretion substrates, including a novel protein, contribute to differential infection of amoebae Acanthamoeba castellanii, Hartmanella vermiformis and Naegleria lovaniensis. Infect Immun. 81(5)1399-1410.
Vargas, P.*, Ward, M.G., Gina A. Garcia (editor). (2020). Building an HSI Brand: A Case Study of California Lutheran University. Defining “Servingness” in Practice at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). Information Age Publishing.
Simeon, T.*, Vargas, P.*, Olfet, J.O., Rutschman, D., Sztainberg, M. (2016). The Student Center for Science Engagement (SCSE): An Urban Hispanic Serving Institution Model of Achievement for STEM Undergraduate Recruitment and Retention. 9th Annual Mentoring Conference Proceedings: Developmental Networks: The Power of Mentoring and Coaching. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. *Authors contributed equally to work and are co-first authors.
Tyson, J.Y.*, Vargas, P.*, Cianciotto, N.P. (2014). The novel Legionella pneumophila type II secretion substrate NttC contributes to infection of amoebae Hartmannella vermiformis and Willaertia magna. Microbiology. 160 (Part 12): 2732-44. *Authors contributed equally to work and are co-first authors.
Tyson, J.Y., Pearce, M., Vargas, P., Bagchi, S., Mulhern, B.J., Cianciotto, N.P. (2013). Multiple Legionella pneumophila type II secretion substrates, including a novel protein, contribute to differential infection of amoebae Acanthamoeba castellanii, Hartmanella vermiformis and Naegleria lovaniensis. Infect Immun. 81(5)1399-1410.
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OC Men’s Soccer (Home Game) vs. Citrus College
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Calling ALL Condors!!! Be sure to come out and show your support for the Oxnard College Men’s Soccer team as they take on Citrus College at 4:00pm on Friday, September 30th. Don't miss this home game!
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Oxnard College
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