Nitza Milagros Escalera is an adjunct professor in the department of Latin American and Latinx Studies.  Until January 2016 Professor Escalera also served as the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Assistant Dean of Diversity Initiatives at Fordham University School of Law where she also taught a seminar titled, Negotiation and Mediation: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. 

Professor Escalera is also a founder and member of the Board of Directors of Friends of PASOS: A Museum and Center for Peacebuilding, Inc. and has recently been appointed to the National Advisory Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.  She is a former fellow of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute and of the Coro Fellow's Leadership Program.