María del Carmen Flores-Mills

María del Carmen Flores-Mills is the vice president of student engagement and dean of students at Queens University of Charlotte. Flores-Mills, who joined Queens in 2019, maximizes the Queens’ student experience and oversees the student and campus programming teams. She has achieved national recognition throughout her 23-year career for her student engagement programs and strong diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Flores-Mills’ career began as a graduate assistant at the University of Iowa, and continued as she took on leadership positions at DePauw University, Franklin & Marshall College and at Princeton University where she had a 13-year tenure. Prior to joining Queens, Flores-Mills worked at Colgate University where she led the cultural center, LGBTQ+ initiatives, fraternity and sorority life, the center for leadership and student involvement, the chaplain’s office and the wellness institute. Flores-Mills graduated with distinction from Iowa State University where she earned a bachelor of arts in Spanish and education. She earned a juris doctorate at the University of Iowa College of Law.