Promoting gender diversity in STEM faculty through leadership development: From local and national leadership workshops to the online LEAD-it-Yourself! toolkit

Joyce Yen is Director of the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change at the University of Washington where she focuses on advancing women and underrepresented minority faculty in STEM fields and leading faculty professional development programs. Her diversity and faculty work has received over $6.7m in grant funding. She holds a MS and PhD in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and BS in Mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She was awarded the 2012 University of Washington David B. Thorud Leadership Award and the 2017 WEPAN Inclusive Culture and Equity Award.

Eve A. Riskin received her BS degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT and her graduate degrees in EE from Stanford. Since 1990, she has been in the EE Department at the University of Washington where she is now Associate Dean of Diversity and Access in the College of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Faculty Director of the ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change. With ADVANCE, she works on mentoring and leadership development programs for women faculty in STEM. She was awarded a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award and a Sloan Research Fellowship, and is Fellow of the IEEE.

Dr Cara Margherio is Senior Research Associate at the UW Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE). Cara serves as Evaluator on several NSF- and NIH-funded projects, and a significant portion of her work is with national professional development programs for early career academics from groups underrepresented in STEM. Her research interests include community cultural wealth, counterspaces, peer mentoring and institutional change. Cara received her PhD and MA in Sociology from the University of Washington, and a BPhil in Sociology and BS in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh.

Jan H. Spyridakis is Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) and Director of the Graduate School’s Interdisciplinary Individual PhD Program at the University of Washington. She chaired HCDE for six years. Her research focuses on investigating best practices for the design of online information; using remote methods to assess the design of online information; and supporting the advancement of women in science and engineering. She is the recipient of ten research and five teaching awards.

Dr Coleen M. Carrigan is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Science, Technology and Society (STS) at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Using ethnography, she investigates the historical and cultural dimensions of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), with a particular emphasis on Computer Science and Engineering, and why these high-status fields appear impervious to desegregation. Dr Carrigan shares the findings from her research to foster welcoming environments for underrepresented groups in STEM and transform the powers of technology to advance social justice.

Ana Mari Cauce is 33rd President of the University of Washington. As a clinical/community psychologist she has focused her research on at-risk adolescents especially those from ethnic minority backgrounds. As an academic administrator she had focused on enhancing diversity across the academy and especially in the STEM disciplines.