Profile for Vickie Sanchez

Brief biography

Vickie Sanchez is a Milwaukee-native, first-generation college student, and earned her master’s degree in Student Affairs Administration from UWL. She brings 16 years of experience in student affairs with a focus in equity, diversity, and inclusion from two UW-campuses, UWL and UW-Stout.  Vickie is excited to return back to La Crosse. Her higher education and multicultural experience is devoted to recruitment, retention, intercultural and program development for BIPOC students. She has extensive multicultural organization advising experience including Greek life affiliations.   Vickie is a trained facilitator in Intercultural development and conflict styles.   Vickie will serve as the Assistant Director for Leadership and work with the 8 multicultural student organizations.  She will utilize her intentional advising and training in intercultural development and extensive EDI experience to create an environment where students feel heard, valued, and welcomed and to affirm students belong on-campus. In her free time, she enjoys antique and thrift shopping, cooking with new recipes, crafting, and reading.