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N<\/span>o, Isabel Moreno-L\u00f3pez said laughing, she\u2019s not here to yell or wag her finger at students. She\u2019s here to listen. To offer advice. Students come to her, often reluctantly, when they are at their worst.<\/p>\n

Yet, Moreno-L\u00f3pez loves her new position as associate provost of undergraduate students. She doesn\u2019t let students leave her office until they are in a better place, even if it means shutting the door and rescheduling appointments, because whoever is in her office at that moment is her entire focus.<\/p>\n

There is the 1 percent she can\u2019t help, but it\u2019s the other 99 that make her job satisfying, that fulfill her days and bring her back to work at 8 a.m. every day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy?\u201d Moreno-L\u00f3pez asked, incredulous. Why is she passionate about her job? \u201cBecause it\u2019s fun. Because it\u2019s challenging. Because I learn from it. Because it opens my eyes every day. I get to share my knowledge, but I get to learn so much not only from my colleagues but from my own students. They open my eyes to things. I\u2019m 30 years their senior and they have a lot to teach me. It\u2019s another world. It\u2019s another vision of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

She has been a Goucher professor for 15 years and associate provost since June 2018. \u201cIsabel has been a steadfast leader at Goucher for more than a decade,\u201d says Scott Sibley, Goucher\u2019s interim provost. \u201cAlong with her strong connections across the Goucher community, she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the associate provost role and all of our students benefit from her expertise in her new position.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her eyes are wide open, and her hands are steady in a time of transitions. \u201cThey are scary, but they are also an opportunity to change what needs to be changed, to keep what is not broken, to take a step back and look at it in a holistic manner without missing the details,\u201d Moreno-L\u00f3pez said. \u201cChange is scary, but it is an opportunity to evaluate, assess, improve.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope for Goucher to rise like a phoenix from the ashes,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not that I think we are in the ashes right now, but there is no transformation without uncertainty and rebuilding.\u201d<\/p>\n

In order to understand Moreno-L\u00f3pez and the certainty with which she says this, know that she laughs often. Know that she is from Madrid. Know that she is married to a Mexican woman. Know that they have two young boys.<\/p>\n

Know that Moreno-L\u00f3pez is herself a phoenix rising.<\/p>\n

She has dusted the ashes from her wings in a world where she has experienced discrimination and understands what it\u2019s like to work 10 times harder to get to the same place as someone who is not the \u201cother.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have it any other way,\u201d she said. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean I accept being mistreated. That means I am proud of who I am. If that makes me the other, then I embrace it. But I fight for the future of my kids, who are darker than me and who have hyphenated last names that are Spanish sounding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreno-L\u00f3pez burns bright, unapologetically.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am Spanish. I am a foreigner. I will always be a foreigner in this country. I will never lose this accent of mine and I don\u2019t want to. In fact, it\u2019s part of my identity in this country,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m a U.S. citizen, but I will never stop being a foreigner. I will never stop being the other. And it\u2019s not always a bad thing. … It is a good thing to bring the richness that you embody because you are the other. I bring to the floor an understanding of other perspectives not because I have studied them, but because I am them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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