Development Chair

Jo Ann López Martínez is a higher education leader with over twenty years experience in building the college pipeline and supporting student success. She currently serves as the Program Director and Principal Investigator to the ASU Nina Mason Pulliam Legacy Scholars program, a scholarship and mentorship program dedicated to providing educational opportunities to students from vulnerable backgrounds, most of whom are first-generation college students and have high financial need. In this role, she addresses challenges for vulnerable non-traditional college students and works to provide solutions by building trusting relationships with students and enhancing partnerships with student-centered community and academic leaders, and using data and research to guide initiatives. Her current praxis focuses on the development of an asset-based mentor research model that emphasizes student learning and on building a trauma-informed training model for student-facing university staff. Prior to her current responsibilities, Jo Ann contributed towards the college-going experience of hundreds of students in her previous roles with the ASU Hispanic-Mother Daughter Program, ASU Barrett Summer Scholars programs, and at Mesa Community College.

Jo Ann has served in multiple leadership roles in higher education, including the ASU Los Diablos Alumni Association. One of her most devoted responsibilities includes her commitment to the ASU Chicano/Latino Faculty and Staff Association where she has held several roles, including serving as President prior to her current role.