Full Name
Cori Bazemore-James
Institution/Organization
University of Minnesota–Twin Cities
Speaking At
Speaker Bio
Cori Bazemore-James, PhD, enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Western New York, is the assistant vice provost of the Graduate School Diversity Office and affiliate faculty in the Higher Education program at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. She also serves as a consultant/trainer for Strategic Diversity Initiatives Inc., and president of the Twin Cities professional chapter of Alpha Pi Omega Sorority Inc., the oldest Indigenous Greek letter organization in the United States. Cori’s passion and academic research centers Indigenous knowledge to magnify the functional area of Indigenous student affairs and to support Indigenous students and staff in historically white institutions. Her proudest professional accomplishments include many publications from her award-winning research, founding the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Indigenous Student Affairs Network—the first national/international professional network of Indigenous student affairs educators, and leading the development of the first Indigenous Student Affairs Standards from the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS).