The Climate, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee is composed of interdisciplinary faculty, staff, postdoctoral research associates, graduate, and undergraduate students with a passion for promoting a healthy and inclusive working environment. Their leadership and vision is paving the way to ensure that all members of our department feel valued, respected, and welcomed.
Committee Members & Student Mentors
Reach out to a committee member with any questions you may have regarding climate, diversity, equity, and inclusion within ECCB. Additionally, we are excited to let you know that we have established an ECCB Student Mentoring and Guidance Program. This program is for students majoring in ECCB as well as ESSM and WFSC legacy degrees. This program is not intended to take the place of our academic advisors who will continue to advise you on courses, progress towards graduation, etc. Rather, the mentoring and guidance committee composed of faculty, staff, post-docs, and graduate students is available to help you with questions or problems related to academics, careers, graduate school, or problems affecting your time at Texas A&M. These mentors have volunteered to be here for you! Feel free to contact whomever you feel most comfortable talking to or who you think can give you the needed advice. You may find that you want to talk to more than one person or we may share the name of another member or an outside resource if we think it could be more helpful. Please reach out and we’ll do our best to help you!
Committee Members >
Viridiana Martinez
Doctoral Student, Vice President of ECCB Graduate Student Association
Daniel Spalink
Assistant Professor and Director of S.M. Tracy Herbarium
Mentors >
Bridgett Benedict
Graduate Student, Social Chair for ECCB Graduate Student Association
Katrina D. Keith
Doctoral Student, President of ECCB Graduate Student Association-
Daniel Spalink
Assistant Professor and Director of S.M. Tracy Herbarium
