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Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Assistants
Faculty
Martha Roditti, MSW, PhD in Social Welfare
Dr. Martha Roditti is an Assistant Professor of Social Work at NMSU. She has 25 years' experience administering federal grants in San Francisco, CA, and in New Mexico. In 2005 she successfully applied to the US Department of Health and Human Services for a Domestic Violence and Hispanic Families Training Grant and has administered it since funding. She also successfully applied to the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women for a project titled Southwest Rural Family Violence Data Development, Prevention, and Outreach Project and has administered it since funding in October of 2007. She has expertise in child welfare, including all aspects of child maltreatment, and in social network mapping. She is also currently writing an entry on child abuse for the Encyclopedia on Issues in US Public Policy to be published by Gale Publishing.
Dr. Michael DeMers
Michael DeMers (Ph.D., MPhil, University of Kansas, MS, BSEd, University of North Dakota) is an Associate Professor of geography at New Mexico State University where he specializes in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Landscape Ecology. He is the author of two GIS textbooks and a laboratory manual. His book, Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems is now in its fourth edition and has been translated into both Simple Chinese and Russian. His book GIS Modeling and System Design is currently being translated into Arabic. He is currently under contract to write GIS for Dummies. Dr. DeMers' research involves a wide array of GIS applications as well as analysis of the effectiveness of online education. Dr. DeMers has also served as an expert witness for cases involving land access and water rights, and just completed a two year term as a member of the National Science Foundation Geography and Regional Science Division review panel. He is a member of the board of the Applied Geography Specialty Group and the Geography Education Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.
Dr. Pamela Schultz
Staff
Madeline Gillette, LISW
Madeline is the Project Coordinator for the Family Violence and Border Populations Project. She administers the Domestic Violence and Hispanic Families Training Project and the Southwest Rural Family Violence Project. She has also worked as a Field Liaison for the School of Social Work since 2004.
She was born and raised in Dona Ana County and is fluent in Spanish. She has more than six years' experience working in the area of family violence and almost two years' experience working with GIS, with an emphasis on the use of GIS for social science research and planning. Madeline has a master's degree in social work and a master's degree in economics, both from NMSU.
She is a member of an Advisory Group for the local child protective services office. She also teaches a class on Violence in the Family for the NMSU School of Social Work. Along with Dr. Roditti, she is currently co-authoring an entry on child abuse policy for the Encyclopedia on Issues in US Public Policy to be published by Gale Publishing.
Susan Rodriguez, LBSW, MSW
Susan is the Community Outreach Coordinator and the Field Instructor for the Southwest Rural Family Violence Project. She began working with project in March of 2008. She supervises the stipend students involved with the project and provides training on domestic violence and healthy relationships to VISTA volunteers and rural community members.
She is a graduate of NMSU School of Social Work. She received her BSW in 2000 and her MSW in 2004. She worked for the Children, Youth, and Families Department for 6 years and is also the adoptive mother of 5 children. She is fluent in Spanish.
Zach L. Edwards, MS
Zach is the coordinator of the Spatial Applications and Research Center (SpARC) at NMSU. He is the GIS Specialist for the Rural Family Violence Project.
Zach received his BA in Geography from Bowling Green State University in 2005 and his MS in Applied Geography from NMSU in 2008. His thesis was titled "An Exploratory GIS Model of West Nile Virus in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, Bernalillo County, New Mexico."
Zach specializes in ESRI's ArcGIS 9.x, ArcIMS 9.2, GIS modeling, web page design, photo imaging software, computer information technology, and building computers.