Senior Vice ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ of Equity and Belonging
Jacqueline Font-Guzmán, JD, PhD, is the senior vice president of equity and belonging at St. ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ University. In this role, Font-Guzmán sustains and enhances an inclusive and equitable environment for work and learning at St. ´ºÓêÖ±²¥ University. She leads strategies that advance education, training, and professional development for faculty, staff, and ´ºÓêÖ±²¥s around issues of diversity, inclusion, belonging, identity, anti-racism, social justice, and equity.
Prior to joining St. Kate's, Font-Guzmán served as the inaugural vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and a tenured professor at the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where she had the honor of being the first Latina to hold a cabinet-level position. Prior to that, she worked at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska where she was director of the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution program (NCR) in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies. In that role, she advanced diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at Creighton through curriculum development and NCR community events.
Font-Guzmán has delivered workshops and presented at national and international conferences on topics such as transforming inequitable systems, inclusive leadership, conflict engagement, dialogue processes, antiracism, and difficult conversations.
Font-Guzmán earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Coe College in Iowa, a Master of Health Administration from Saint Louis University in Missouri, a law degree summa cum laude from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico School of Law, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Nova Southeastern University in Florida.