Nancy Camarillo, MS — Adjunct ; Adjunct, Teaching, Learning & Leadership ; Student Development Administration Program , College of Education .

Nancy Camarillo (she/ella) is a proud first-generation college graduate from Los Angeles, CA, currently based in Tacoma, WA. The daughter of Salvadoran and Mexican immigrants and the youngest of six siblings, she was raised in a household grounded in community uplift, which continues to shape her professional and scholarly commitments.

Nancy brings over a decade of experience in student affairs and higher education–adjacent nonprofits across California, Iowa, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Her practitioner background includes DEI programming, academic retention, fraternity and sorority life, student organization advising, and first-year experience. In the nonprofit sector, she previously served as Director of Skill Building and Collaborations at FirstGen Forward (formerly NASPA’s Center for First-generation Student Success), where she led national professional development initiatives and managed grant-funded programs supporting institutional capacity-building.

Nancy is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Higher Education, Student Affairs, and International Education Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research agenda interrogates monolithic assumptions within Latine/x/a/o communities, with particular attention to multiethnic identity, meaning-making, and the professional socialization of first-generation and multiethnic Latine/x/a/o student affairs professionals. She earned a B.A. in Political Science from California Lutheran University and an MS in Higher Education Administration from California State University, Fullerton.