La Casa has two full-time professional staff members that help set the vision of the center, which is heavily influenced by current student needs while honoring the center’s history and legacy. La Casa’s administrators supervise La Casa’s student staff, advise affiliate student organizations, support individual students, manage center operations, host events and programs, engage in collaborations across campus, serve on a variety of committees, and much more.
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Carolina Dávila Directora of La Casa Cultural & Assistant Dean of Yale College (Pronouns: She/Her/Hers/Ella) Carolina has a long history with La Casa, starting with her arrival to Yale as the center’s Assistant Director in June 2017, promotion to Associate Director in April 2022, and becoming the Director in June 2025. Her service to Yale reaches beyond her work at La Casa. Carolina has been a Davenport fellow since 2017, has sat on several committees within Yale College, and served as an Interim Program Manager for Student Organization withint he Office of Student Affairs for a year. Carolina is involved with professional organizations, such as NASPA and ACPA, focusing her engagement in equity- and identity-based opportunities. Prior to Yale, Carolina was a Residence Hall Director at the University of Connecticut (UConn) in Storrs, CT. Carolina is a Mami of two kiddos. Inspired by her own transition into parenthood and the support she received, Carolina became a certified doula in August 2023. With an increasing interest in supporting sutdent-parents in higher education, Carolina worked with the Office of Facilities to install a baby-changing station in La Casa’s ADA bathroom. Carolina is Afro Boricua, a native of Puerto Rico via Boston, and identifies as a first-generation low-income college graduate. Carolina received her bachelor’s degree in Communication Disorders with a minor in Spanish from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and her master’s degree in Higher Education Administration from the University of Pennsylvania. |