August 14, 2019
CAREERS Special Edition
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Brand to Lead PCC Diversity Office
Portland Community College
has promoted an interim school
leader and former dean of stu-
dents as its new permanent chief
diversity officer.
Tricia Brand held the post on
a temporary basis since last year
and has been responsible to oth-
er duties related to equity over
the past few years. She recently
played an instrumental role in
the college’s presence as part of
the National Conference on Race
and Ethnicity in Higher Educa-
tion, school officials said.
Brand began her tenure at the
college in 2014 as the Associ-
ate Dean of Students at PCC’s
Southeast Campus. There she
helped establish the campus’ first
ever Resource Center for provid-
ing direction to services such as
academic advising, the orienta-
tion center, testing and place-
ment and career exploration. She
Photo by e rin h oover b arnett /ohSu
Christopher Ponce Campuzano, an OHSU medical student from the
Class of 2023 gets a hug from mentor Carolyn Zook, a member of
the undergraduate medical education program team. Campuzano
is the first immigrant of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival
status in the school’s most racially diverse incoming class.
Diversity in Medicine
C ontinued from P age 3
Pathway.
“I’m so much more confident
and comfortable not only in the
idea of becoming a physician
but just starting medical school,”
said Kyna Lewis, a Tlingit Alas-
kan Native and Wy’East cohort
member. “I found a place where I
actually belong. I have a commu-
nity. That’s more than I could have
hoped for.”
Another student from incoming
class represented the first immi-
grant student who has Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrival sta-
tus. Ponce Campuzano was one
of three members of the class of
2023 to have participated in the
OHSU Equity Summer Research
Program, an eight-week, hands-on
internship with research and clini-
cal elements.
“That summer I fell in love
with the medical research I was
doing at OHSU, and the amount
of support I was getting from the
faculty and staff on a daily basis,”
he said, describing the roots to
his inspiration for applying to the
medical school.
and Staff of Color caucuses and
the Communities of Color Coun-
cil. In April, she represented the
college on a panel regarding eq-
uity in the workforce called “How
Oregon Works.”
Brand previously served in a
variety of administration positions
at Lewis & Clark College since
2009, and before then worked at
the University of Arizona starting
in 2006.
Tricia Brand
was also the campus’ Title IX in-
vestigator.
In the past six months, Brand
sponsored multiple college-wide
social justice workshops, attended
by more than 200 employees. She
has assisted the president’s office
with organization of PCC Faculty