Emerging Voices
Emerging Voices
Podcast Description
Welcome to Emerging Voices! This series interviews those within NACADA’s Emerging Leaders Program, which is meant to build a sustainable community of strong NACADA leaders representative of diversity across the membership. Emerging Voices is part of the Adventures in Advising podcast network.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes such as academic advising, student success strategies, and professional development, with episodes exploring topics like career integration in advising and the role of soft skills in education, highlighted by personal stories from program participants.

Welcome to Emerging Voices! This series interviews those within NACADA’s Emerging Leaders Program, which is meant to build a sustainable community of strong NACADA leaders representative of diversity across the membership.
Emerging Voices is part of the Adventures in Advising podcast network.
Recorded earlier this year, this episode features Mariela Ramirez who was then Undergraduate Program Advisor in Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and is now at UC Davis. Matt and Bri chat with Mariela about introvert superpowers (and strategic beach walks), surviving the quarter-system sprint, building a high-impact peer advising program, and how counseling “core conditions” can level-up everyday advising conversations. Mariela also shares her research on campus climate for LGBTQ Latinx students, behind-the-scenes of her first NACADA poster, and practical, kind advice for anyone eyeing the Emerging Leaders Program. Tune in for warmth, wisdom, and plenty of “you’ve got this” energy.
In this episode:
- Quarter-system hustle without burning out
- Peer advisors as student-to-student game changers
- Applying counseling techniques in advising (that actually work)
- Real talk on boundaries, self-care, and calendar blocking
- How to craft a standout ELP application—minus the stress
Hit play, get inspired, and then go do that one brave thing for your students (and yourself) today.
*Emerging Voices is a spinoff of the Adventures in Advising podcast!
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