Cassidy Alvarado

Cassidy Alvarado

She/Her/Hers Director of National & International Fellowships, Loyola Marymount University

Cassidy leads the Office of National & International Fellowships at Loyola Marymount University. Her interests include equity, access, and inclusion in international education, community college and transfer student support, and postgraduate pathways. Cassidy graduated in May 2021 with her doctorate in Educational Leadership for Social Justice from LMU. Her dissertation explored community college and transfer student access to nationally competitive awards, like the Gilman and Fulbright grants. She earned an M.A. in Humanities from Mount Saint Mary’s University and a B.A. in English from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.