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Oscar Miranda Tapia

PhD Student, Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development, North Carolina State University

PhD Student, Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development, North Carolina State University Oscar Miranda Tapia, M.Ed. is a Research Associate at the Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research and a Graduate Assistant at the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. He is also a PhD student and Provost Fellow at North Carolina State University pursuing his degree in Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development with a concentration in Higher Education Opportunity, Equity, and Justice. Before pursuing his degree, Oscar created and led first-generation initiatives at Elon University. Oscar’s research interests include college access and success, and students with DACA, undocumented, first-generation, and Latinx identities. Oscar holds a B.A. in Psychology from Elon University and an M.Ed. with a concentration in Higher Education from Harvard University.