Cesar Vargas-Leon

Cesar Vargas-Leon is the senior program manager at The Program on Intergroup Relations. He facilitates strategic leadership for Student Life strategic partnerships. SET, and IGR recruitment. Cesar supports the annual National Intergroup Dialogue Institute as a facilitator and also teaches.
 

Educational background

• BA in sociology and Latinx studies, University of Michigan
• MA in educational leadership higher education student affairs, Eastern Michigan University
   

Recent publications and conference presentations

• Morton, C. S. & Vargas Leon, C. (2024). Intergroup dialogue facilitator techniques: Equalizing power dynamics: Multipartiality, dominant and counter-narratives. In S. D. Hicks & D. R. Kaplowitz (Eds.), Facilitating Transformative Dialogues: Creating Socially Just Communities. Teachers College Press. 
• Hernandez, E., Slosberg, D. A., Vargas-Leon, C., ​Wheat, M. (2023, June). The hidden work of community building for conflict [Conference presentation]. Difficult Dialogue National Resource Center 2023 conference. San Jose, CA.
• Kirpes, M., Vargas-Leon, C., Wheat, M. Students Becoming, Belonging, and Blooming through IGR Involvement [Conference presentation]. 2023 ACUM Advising Symposium: Becoming, Belonging and Blooming, University of Michigan, filmed May 4, 2023. Video of presentation, 1:04:42, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kbs1mD6Q9bLCzksnesqujHSRnzdzhfV0/view
• Slosberg, D., Vargas-Leon, C., Wheat, M. (2022 December 6). Dialogue: What is it? Why is it important? And how can and do you use it? [Conference presentation]. Student Life Professional Development Conference. Ann Arbor, MI
   

Contact

Contact me about

• IGR partnership consultation
• SET collaborations
• IGR recruitment