Rogelio Garcia Contreras

Rogelio Garcia Contreras, teaching assistant faculty in the Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Venture Innovation, Sam M. Walton College of Business. Outside Academia, Garcia Contreras has extensive experience, working as a consultant, researcher, and a political and public policy analyst in both, the private and public sectors of Mexico and the United States. He has collaborated with a variety of foundations, organizations and institutions of higher education in the design and implementation of comprehensive development initiatives in places like Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Haiti, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Turkey, Pakistan and the United States. 

Garcia Contreras is always honored and excited by the opportunity to lead honors classes. He believes each one of the honors courses he conducts ends up having lots of elements that make them unique, namely: freedom in the selection of the topic; substantial preparation for the class, and, above all, the superb quality of students. To Garcia Conteras, honors students' commitment to the class, and their ability and disposition to foster a collective learning experience for everyone involved makes them special and unique. He notes that as a safe space for the free and equal exchange of ideas, every Honors course he has had the opportunity to lead is one in which the quality of students involved is extraordinary.