Raúl Segura

Raúl Segura is a first generation college student who earned his Associate’s degree in Spring 2023 from Columbia Basin College. Raúl is a current student at Eastern Washington University working towards a BA in Psychology, a minor in Spanish, and a PhD.

Raúl is an officer for MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano De Aztlan), a campus organization that seeks to promote Chicano unity and empowerment through political action. He is an active member of the EWU Tennis Club, and a student employee at EWU’s Student Communication Center, working on student outreach. Raúl is interested in a School Psychology career. Specifically, he seeks to create an optimal classroom environment for students and teachers of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Further research interests revolve around student teacher relationships in multicultural settings and how they can create negative or positive impacts in the classroom, and how to create  a culturally safe classroom environment. For his 2024 McNair Summer Research Internship Raúl will work alongside his mentor, Dr. Sarah Johansson. Raúl hopes to research multicultural relationships with students, teachers, and its effects on a student’s learning as well as the strength of student- teacher relationships.