Brandie Dingman
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State University of New York at Albany

Brandie M. Dingman is a Graduate student in the Sociology Department at the State University of New York- Albany and a Certified Demographer. As the Coordinator of Advancement of the Global Center for Critical Demography and Public Sociology she is currently charged with planning the Critical Demography Association's First Annual Conference in March 2009.  She is the primary multi-media marketing designer and editor for the Center as they advance in the Twenty - First Century. 

Using Critical Demography, her current research aims to depict how technology and Racism are used to deny rental access via language and vernacular differences amongst the Latino population over the telephone in the Albany Metropolitan Area.  This is going to complete her Master's Thesis Research.  Furthermore, critically analyze income inequality based on the ISMS: Racism, Sexism and Classism in comparison to their dominant counterparts in America.  Collaboratively with other CDA members, Brandie is researching Government State Workers Nationally with a completion goal of Spring 2009 utilizing HLM / Multilevel Modeling and a critical approach.  

 In addition, to her national research, she is currently working on an International Project researching various demographic and sociological topics in Sierra Leone - West Africa.  As part of an International humanitarian effort and global research network, she is currently working on a medical mission and fundraising for a children’s orphanage in Sierra Leone.  For more on Sierra Leone and her research interests please visit her website at www.aboutblooddiamonds.com . 

Her research interests are race and ethnicity, demography, social inequality, globalization, higher education and non-traditional access, medical sociology & health disparities, the Diaspora, income disparities, housing and rental access, International and National Human Rights and Sierra Leone Africa.  Brandie is currently a member of the Population Association of America, American Sociological Association, Southern Demographic Association, NYS Sociological Association, Association of Blacks Sociologists, and Eastern Sociological Society.  As a Financial Aid Professional at Excelsior College she is a member of the Eastern Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (EASFAA), and a New York State Financial Aid Administrators (NYSFFA) member. As a Humanitarian she is a member of the National Human Rights Campaign.                                

Brandie received her Bachelors Degree at the State University at Albany in New York in Sociology with a Minor in History in 2005 and graduated with Honors.