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Bella Vargas

Coordinator for Recruitment & Communications

Pronouns: She/Ella

Email:

ivargas@uic.edu

About

Bella helps tell the story of Campus Housing through social media, branding, and communication. She also coordinates all Campus Housing recruitment efforts for Orientation, Open House, Ignite, Preview Days and hall tours. Bella comes to us with a wealth of Residence Life experience, most recently working at Northeastern Illinois University as an Assistant General Manager with a focus in building operations, marketing, training, programming, student conduct and student development. She is a ENLACITA who earned her Master's in Higher Education Leadership and Bachelor's in Biology and Chemistry from NEIU. Bella is a recent mother to a baby boy and wife to her partner Pedro.

Licensures and Certifications

  • Bystander Intervention Facilitator
  • Opioid Overdose Responder
  • Undocumented Student Ally
  • QPR (Suicide Prevention)