Christina Vargas is the Chief Diversity Officer and Title IX Coordinator at Suffolk County Community College. Throughout her career, she has displayed a passion for social justice, multiculturalism, equity, inclusion and diversity and has worked to bring various communities together in partnership. Her professional expertise includes strategic planning; training and organizational development; federal and state compliance; policy development; recruitment and selection; equity, inclusion, cultural competence; diversity programs; supervision and management; staff development; budgeting; and investigations. She is an adjunct lecturer for the Master’s Program in Higher Education Administration at Stony Brook University and teaches a course on Diversity and Social Justice. In 2018, she was the recipient of the program’s Faculty Excellence Award. In 2020, Ms. Vargas was selected as a Fellow of the SUNY Hispanic Leadership Institute. Her many contributions have earned Ms. Vargas multiple awards and recognition including the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service.

She spent 20 years of her career at Stony Brook University, serving as Director of Diversity and Affirmative Action/Title IX Coordinator for all University academic and administrative areas, Stony Brook Medicine and the Long Island State Veteran’s home. Ms. Vargas is on the Board of Directors for ERASE Racism, Inc., and is a past President of Stony Brook University’s Alumni Association. She is also a founder of Stony Brook University’s Black and Latino alumni network. Ms. Vargas received her Bachelor of Science in Business Management and her Master of Science in Management and Policy from Stony Brook. She holds a Diversity Management Certification as an Advanced Practitioner from Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.