Gina the director of BMCC's Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (CETLS). Before coming to BMCC in 2016, Gina was a founder and co-director of Hunter's Academic Center for Excellence in Research and Teaching, a faculty member at Marymount College, a research scientist at the University of Washington, and a tenant organizer in subsidized housing in San Francisco. Gina holds a Master's in Social Welfare from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder.