As Director of the Center for Community Engagement at UTEP, Azuri Gonzalez manages UTEP’s community-based teaching and learning partnerships to enhance higher education learning and contribute to the public good. As the Director, Azuri has been instrumental in attaining UTEP’s designation as a Community Engaged Institution by the Carnegie Foundation, listing on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, and high rank in Washington Monthly magazine’s national college rankings based on social mobility, research, and service. Azuri has served on the YWCA El Paso del Norte Region Board of Directors since 2006 and served on the former National Coordinating Board of the YWCA USA from 2008-2012, most recently on its Governance Committee.