Leah Hakkola
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Leah Hakkola graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development in 2015. Her current research examines how local, national, and global discourses about diversity are developed and conveyed to students in the higher education recruitment process. Leah’s academic and career goals are guided by a passion to work as both a scholar and practitioner, focusing on how discourses about difference shape and are informed by educational policies and practices, and how these discourses affect student success. Leah enjoys bringing together a diversity of opinions, ideologies, and identities within a democratic framework of equity and social justice in her work. She has a broad range of experience in student affairs and higher education administration working for the Access to Success Program and for the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion in her career at the University of Minnesota. Leah also has extensive evaluation experience working on the University of Minnesota’s Graduate Review and Improvement Process and in the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute.
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M.A., 2010, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
B.A., 2005, St. Olaf College
