Aisha Engle

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About Aisha Engle

Aisha Engle is a financial wellness/career counselor at the California State University of Sacramento. Throughout her professional career she has embodied values of diversity, equity and inclusion, by aligning her professional work and scholarship toward examining the intersectionality of marginalized roles and academia. Engle’s formal education includes a B.S. in Women Studies from Sacramento State University, and a M.A in Behavioral Science and Gender Equity Studies from Sacramento State University. A self-described “little feminist who could”, Ms. Engle is a Black woman, who believes that “education liberates” and has fought her way to overcome many challenges and life circumstances to be where she is today. Ms. Engle is proud to be a “steward of work” on campus and served as the coordinator of the Women’s Resource Center for six years at Sacramento State University. Although Ms. Engle has earned several awards on campus, including the Woman of Influence Award, the Student Affairs Diversity and Inclusion Award, and Outstanding Graduate Student for the College of Education.it is the small awards and recognitions that matter to her. That is, she values the small, yet meaningful interactions with youth where she can serve as a “beacon of hope” by “promoting self-agency”, thereby letting them know they matter, and they belong.