{"id":479,"date":"2022-02-17T09:55:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T14:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cancer-uncovered\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=479"},"modified":"2022-02-17T09:55:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T14:55:53","slug":"victor-b-saenz","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cancer-uncovered\/speaker\/victor-b-saenz\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor B. S\u00e1enz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor B. S\u00e1enz, Ph.D. is the W. K. Kellogg Professor in Community College Leadership and the Chair of the Department of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/education.utexas.edu\/departments\/educational-leadership-policy\" target=\"_blank\">Educational Leadership and Policy<\/a>\u00a0at University of Texas at Austin. He holds courtesy appointments with the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the Center for Mexican American Studies, and various other research centers across the University. His current work advances research-informed best practices and policy solutions that improve educational outcomes for underserved students in education, with a special emphasis on boys and young men of color. Dr. S\u00e1enz earned his Ph.D. in Higher Education and Organizational Change in 2005 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He also earned a Master&#8217;s degree in Public Affairs (1999) and a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Mathematics (1996) from the University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":480,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-479","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at University of Texas at Austin","speaker_last_name":"Saenz","speaker_classification":["Current Staff"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cancer-uncovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cancer-uncovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cancer-uncovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cancer-uncovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cancer-uncovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/479\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cancer-uncovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/cancer-uncovered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}