
Celeste Diaz Ferraro
Service & Community Engagement
Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
- Big Ten Academic Alliance conference on faculty diversity and recruitment. Speaker and representative for Penn State Smeal College of Business. February 2021.
- Penn State Smeal College of Business Diversity Task Force. Co-chair (Engagement). Spring 2020-Winter 2021.
Management Profession
- Contributor, Ethnography Atelier.
- Co-organizer, PhD Project Qualitative Methods training series. Spring 2021. Research committee member, 2020-2021.
- Ad hoc reviewer, Academy of Management. 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
Institutional Service
- Penn State Social Thought Program. Co-organizer, annual Social Thought Conference and doctoral workshop, Spring 2020.
- Penn State Smeal Management & Organization. Co-organizer, PhD research workshop. 2019-2020.
- AACSB re-accreditation process, Smeal Management & Organization stakeholder representative, Fall 2019.
- St. Mary's University President’s Peace Commission. Appointed member and co-organizer/facilitator of annual symposium linking global social issues to the student experience. Fall 2008, Spring 2009.
- 2006-2010: Member, National Alumni Board of Directors, Trinity University. Co-led 10-year strategic planning process, chaired Communications committee.
- 2009-2010: President-Elect, National Alumni Board of Directors, Trinity University.
Community Service
- 2020-2021: Centre County COVID Community Response, co-organizer of Spanish-language mutual aid effort supporting 25 asylum-seeking families shut out of formal systems of emergency pandemic relief.
- 2010-2011: NATO Joint Forces Command appointed representative to Komen Race for the Cure Italian organizing efforts.
- 2008-2010: Volunteer, C3. First co-working space in San Antonio, TX.
- 2007-2010: Vice-chair, Presa Community Center Board of Directors. Member of personnel oversight committee.
- 2008-2010: Member, Tobin Hill Community Association Board of Directors.