Christina Vargas Law is the Director of Diversity and Affirmative Action at Stony Brook University and for the last 11 years, has held progressively responsible positions in the Office of Diversity and Affirmative Action and Human Resources. The Office is responsible for Equal Employment Opportunity policies and practices, Affirmative Action compliance, discrimination complaint resolution, and diversity related strategies and educational programs for Stony Brook's faculty, staff and students in its academic and administrative areas, Health Sciences Center, University Hospital and Long Island State Veteran's Home. Throughout her career, she has displayed a passion for social justice, multiculturalism and diversity and has worked to bring various communities together in partnership with Stony Brook.
In her role, she has responsibility for the University's Affirmative Action Program; coordinating specialized employment outreach activities; and developing and delivering educational, training and orientation programs, workshops and conferences on topics including Diversity Awareness, EEO Law and Discrimination, Cultural Competence and Sexual Harassment Prevention. She serves on many internal diversity committees as well as advisory boards for the President, the Dean of Students, the Social Justice Center; the Equal Opportunity Program; the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center; the Liberty Partnership Program and Hispanic Heritage Month. In 2004, she was appointed as a member of the Suffolk County Hispanic Task Force, serves on the Board of Directors for the Stony Brook Alumni Association, and is a member of the American Association of Affirmative Action. She frequently serves as a facilitator and presenter at local and national conferences and has recently served on the planning committees for "La Vision" Hispanic/Latino youth conference hosted by the National Association for Puerto Rican and Hispanic Social Workers and "Brown vs. Board of Education: The Unfinished Agenda", hosted by ERASE Racism.








