READY Team
Our Director
College of Arts Sciences & Education
Associate Professor
Graduate Students
Delores Auzenne Fellow
College of Arts, Sciences, and Education Dean’s Distinguished Doctoral Fellow
McKnight Fellow
Program Staff
Dr. Elsa Bravo
Reading Explorers Program
Assistant Program Director for
Miami-Dade and Broward
Orlena Ramirez
Reading Explorers
Miami-Dade County
Program Coordinator
Parent Club
Program Coordinator
Victoria Quintanilla, M.S., RMHCI.
Summer Treatment Program & Parent Club
Program Coordinator
Eisler Leyva, B.A.
Reading Explorers
Miami-Dade County
Program Assistant
Amanda Cole, B.A.
Reading Explorers
Broward County
Program Assistant
Gabriel Suarez
Parent Club
Parent Workshop Facilitator
Barbara Jimenez
Parent Club
Parent Workshop Facilitator
Darian Lazo
Parent Club
Parent Workshop Facilitator
Parent Club
Darian Lazo
Barbara Jimenez
Parent Workshop Facilitators
Our Alumni
2020 Graduate
Now Clinical Faculty at Children Health – Children’s Medical Center Dallas
Postdoctoral Fellowship: University of Mississippi Medical Center
Internship: University of California at San Francisco
NIGMS RISE Fellow
Delores Auzenne Fellow
2021 Graduate
Now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Internship: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Head Start Graduate Student Research Scholar
2022 Graduate
Now a Postdoctoral Fellow at duPont Hospital for Children!
Intership: duPont Hospital for Children
Head Start Graduate Student Research Scholar
Reading Explorers Program Former Assistant Program Director for Miami-Dade and Broward
Reading Explores
Miami-Dade County
Former Program Coordinator for Miami-Dade
Former McKnight Fellow
Summer Treatment Program & Parent Club
Former-Program Coordinator
Parent Club
Former Parent Workshop Facilitator
