Meet the Team
TCU Office of Diversity & Inclusion
Phone: 817-257-8228
Email: inclusion@tcu.edu
Location: The Harrison, Suite 1800.
Office Hours: 8 a.m.–5 p.m., Monday–Friday
Mailing Address:
Texas Christian University
TCU Box 298980
Fort Worth, TX 76129
Our Team
Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado
Senior Advisor to the Chancellor and Chief Inclusion Officer
j.ba@tcu.edu
817-257-5566
"Responsibility cannot be lost it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." –James Baldwin
Aisha Torrey-Sawyer
Director, Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
a.torrey-sawyer@tcu.edu
817-257-4803
"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble." –John Lewis
Florencio U. Aranda III, Ph.D.
Assistant Director of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
florencio.aranda@tcu.edu
817-257-8559
"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own." –César Chávez
Brenda Fisher
Executive Assistant
brenda.fisher@tcu.edu
817-257-5922
"A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority." –Booker T. Washington
Leslie Ekpe
Graduate Assistant
l.ekpe@tcu.edu
"We will know that inclusive education has become embedded in our culture when the term becomes obsolete." (Giangreco, et. al., 2011)