Leadership
Carl Lejuez, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Carl Lejuez was appointed executive vice president and provost at Stony Brook University, effective July 1, 2022. President Maurie McInnis announced the appointment on April 27. Lejuez was previously provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs at the University of Connecticut.
As the chief academic officer at Stony Brook, Lejuez is responsible for oversight of the academic mission of the university, providing direct supervision for all academic units, support services, and operations, including enrollment management and student success, and coordinating all academic programs. Prior to his affiliation with UConn, Lejuez served as interim provost and executive vice chancellor and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at The University of Kansas. He was also a professor of psychology and associate dean of research for the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, a research professor at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and an adjunct faculty member at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, CT.
Lejuez holds a MA and PhD in clinical psychology from West Virginia University and earned his BA in psychology from Emory University.
Karian Wright
Principal Investigator
Karian Wright joined the Center for Inclusive Education in 2013 as the program manager for the NSF-funded Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program titled "The Stony Brook-Brookhaven AGEP Frontiers of Research and Academic Models of Excellence (FRAME) Alliance for Transformation. Since then, Karian has also served as the program manager for the NIH-funded Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA) New York Consortium for the Advancement of Postdoctoral Scholars (NY-CAPS) program and the AGEP Alliance Model to Advance Underrepresented Minority STEM Faculty at Predominately Undergraduate Institutions. Prior to Stony Brook University, Karian served as Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Adjunct Faculty of Information Technology at Monroe College in New Rochelle, NY. Karian has over 20 years of experience in higher education including admissions, recruitment, student advising, and retention. She also managed a College Jumpstart program serving over 500 high school students annually and developed a female empowerment program for over 300 young women, most of whom were first-generation college students from minoritized backgrounds. Karian has a firm commitment to the advancement of students who have been historically underrepresented in higher education. She holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Monroe College and is currently pursuing a PhD in Higher Education Leadership at Colorado State University.
Rosalia Davi
Program Manager
Rosalia Davi joined the CIE in March 2016 as the CIE Diversity Outreach Coordinator,
where her primary focus was to grow the successful recruitment of underrepresented
scholars for graduate and postdoctoral study across the STEM disciplines, and for
the CIE's suite of externally funded programs. Rosalia is now the Program Manager
for the NIH IMSD MERGE T32, Dr. W. Burghardt Turner, NSF LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate,
and GEM Fellowship programs. Prior to her time in higher education, Rosalia worked
for a college access non-profit helping to bridge the opportunity gap for underresourced
students at Let's Get Ready. With over 15 years of experience in higher education
and non-profit management, specifically in experiential education, diversity graduate
and postdoctoral recruitment, and program management, Rosalia has a demonstrated committment
to supporting scholars from historically marginalized communities. She has a dual
master’s degree in Gender and Cultural Studies and Communications Management from
Simmons College, and is a Stony Brook University alumna.
Bremelin Romero
Program Coordinator
Bremelin Romero joined CIE as a Program Coordinator in January 2024, where she will be coordinating The Turner Fellowship, the Initiative for Maximizing Student Development: Maximizing Excellence in Research for Graduate Education (IMSD-MERGE), NSF LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate, and the GEM Fellowship. Bremelin brings a wealth of unique skills and multidisciplinary professional experience to CIE, ranging from teaching and fintech to entrepreneurial pursuits as an Apiarist (a fancy word for beekeeper) for which she managed 25 hives in various locations in Suffolk County, and she is a candidate for a “Master Beekeeping” certificate program with eCornell University. Bremelin holds a BA in Mass Communication from Hofstra University, which paved the way for many years as a journalist covering Southeast Asia. She also holds a graduate degree in International Trade and Economic Cooperation from Kyung Hee University in South Korea, where she worked and lived for seven years. In her spare time, Bremelin loves to travel (she would love to share stories with fellow adventurers), and she enjoys sharing good food and the culinary arts with friends and family.