Bio: Dr. Meseret F. Hailu is an Assistant Professor of Higher and Postsecondary Education at Arizona State University (ASU). Her research focuses on the retention of minoritized women in STEM higher education pathways. Recently, her work has focused on 1) how Black immigrant women in the U.S. persist in engineering, and 2) how higher education institutions in Eastern Africa conceptualize and implement equity initiatives. Prior to coming to ASU, Dr. Hailu was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at The Ohio State University. Her research has been funded by FHI 360, the Fulbright Program, the United States Agency for International Development, and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Hailu’s research can be accessed through her ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6080-0577

Research: The guiding question that unifies Dr. Hailu's comparative scholarship is: How do institutions of higher education retain minoritized women in STEM pathways? To answer this question, she is conducting two research threads concerning the experiences of undergraduate Black women in two different geographic settings: East Africa and the United States.