Aída Mencía Ripley

She is currently Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation and UNESCO Chairholder in Intersectional Gender Studies in Education and Psychology at Universidad Iberoamericana of the Dominican Republic (UNIBE).

[8] She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Interamerican Psychological Society, the Dominican College of Psychologists, the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) and the Young Scientist Chapter of the Dominican Academy of Sciences.

[12] Her efforts as an academic administrator have focused on supporting research initiatives that address stigma and access to care for people living with HIV/AIDS and other historically marginalized groups in the Dominican Republic impacted by inequalities in both the healthcare and education system.

She has also devoted considerable efforts to promote ethical and culturally respectful research conducted in developing countries paying special attention to issues of gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity through intersectional and decolonial approaches.

In 2021, she was appointed Vice-Chancellor and led UNIBE's efforts in creating its first Research and Innovation Hub.