Dr. Torti has spent the past fifteen years in leadership roles with the University of Utah. Since 2011, she has served as the university's dean of the Honors College.
The three women who have been appointed to diversity posts are Belinda ’Otukolo Saltibanat Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Rachael Blansett in a joint effort by Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, Vermont, and the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, and Dania Matos at the University of California, Berkeley.