Team Members

Kristyn Lue

Postdoctoral Research Associate & Project Coordinator, IGEN Research Hub University of Southern California Kristyn Lue is a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the Rossier School of Education, where she works with Julie Posselt in the Equity in Graduate Education Resource Center on a research study of disciplinary societies’ diversity, equity, […]

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Liz Daniele

Director of Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Affairs University of Rochester Liz Daniele is Director of Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Affairs at the University of Rochester. She is committed to faculty development in graduate education and particularly to sharing best practices in mentoring because she knows informed mentoring practices are important for a diverse and healthy

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Annie Wofford

Associate Director, Equity in Graduate Education Consortium Assistant Professor of Higher Education Florida State University Annie M. Wofford, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies at Florida State University. Her research interests center on structural inequities within graduate education, and she focuses on the development

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Linda DeAngelo

Associate Professor of Higher Education University of Pittsburgh Linda DeAngelo is Associate Professor of Higher Education, Center for Urban Education Faculty Fellow, and Affiliated Faculty in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. DeAngelo earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education and Organizational Change from the University of California, Los Angeles

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Jon Pelz

Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Studies, Department of Physics Ohio State University Jonathan (Jon) Pelz received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1987. After postdoctoral research at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Pelz joined the Ohio State University Physics faculty in 1990. Pelz’s experimental condensed matter physics

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Madvhi Venkatesh

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry Vanderbilt University Madhvi Venkatesh, DPhil is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University. Originally trained as a structural biologist in the NIH-Oxford Scholars Program, she now studies student affect, socialization, and skill development in bioscience graduate education. In addition to her research, Madhvi also serves as the Curriculum Director for

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John Vasquez

Associate Dean of Access & Equity Central Washington University As Associate Dean of Access & Equity, Dr. Vasquez provides leadership across campus to weave academic achievement, diversity, equity, and inclusion, into the fabric of student life for all Central Washington University students, whether they are residential, at the University Centers, online, transfer, exploratory, first generation,

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Grace O’Connell

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence, College of Engineering University of California, Berkeley – Department of Mechanical Engineering Grace O’Connell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the co-director of the Berkeley Biomechanics Laboratory, and her research interests are in

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Damon Williams

Associate Dean and Chief Diversity Officer at The Graduate School Northwestern University Damon joined Northwestern from Emory University, where he served as the inaugural Director of Diversity, Community, and Recruitment in the James T. Laney Graduate School. At Emory, he created the EDGE-Emory Diversifying Graduate Education Office that supports diversity and inclusion initiatives for graduate

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Sara Xayarath Hernandez

Liaison Community Engagement Coordinator, Equity in Graduate Education Consortium Associate Dean for Inclusion & Student Engagement Cornell University – Graduate School Sara is part of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education’s core leadership team, providing vision and strategic management for Graduate School initiatives and policies related to diversity, inclusion, access, and equity. She is also

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