Bobbie Porter is the first ever Vice President and Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer at California State University, Dominguez Hills. She is a career diversity and inclusion practitioner with over a decade of experience facilitating this work in various roles in private industry, government, and public higher education. Throughout her career in higher education, she has focused her practice and study toward the effectiveness of minority-serving institutions, diversity culture change, and leadership.

Before arriving at CSUDH, she served as the inaugural Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) and Assistant Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at California State University, Fullerton where she worked to advance the institution’s commitment to all aspects of global diversity that are essential to academic excellence. Prior to her roles in the CSU system, Dr. Porter served as the chief equity officer for a 46-institution higher education system in Tennessee.

She is an active member of the national and regional higher education CDO community and lends her expertise to various local agencies. She is on the National Advisory Committee for the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education, serves as Co-Chair of the Southern California Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, and recently was a fellow of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education.

She holds a Doctor of Education in Leadership from the University of Memphis and a Master of Public Administration from Tennessee State University.