Staff
Griselda Flores, Ph.D., Director, Retriever Essential Needs and Connections
Phone: 410-455-2770 Email: gflores2@umbc.edu
Ariel Barbosa, Assistant Director, Retriever Essentials
Email: avbarbos@umbc.edu
Dennis Walker, Assistant Director, Adult Learners and Veteran Student Success
Phone:410-455-6552 Email: dwalker3@umbc.edu
Retriever Essentials
Retriever Essentials is a faculty, staff, and student-led partnership that promotes food access in the UMBC community. They offer free groceries, toiletries, baby items, and meal swipes, and have opportunities to engage and get involved. All of the resources are 100% free.
Veteran and military-affiliated student services
Veterans Services is committed to assisting service members, veterans, and dependents with services, advocacy, programming, and support to help you navigate and find community at UMBC. More events and resources can be found in the Student Service Members, Veterans & Families myUMBC group.
Adult learner services
Adult learners, which are sometimes referred to as “non-traditional aged students”, are undergraduate students of 25 years or older. We recognize that adult learners have unique experiences and challenges. Current event information can be found through the Adult Learners myUMBC group. The following resources may also be helpful to adult learners: