Gender Equity – Badger Talks – UW–Madison

Vicki Bier

jnweaver — Mon, 01 May 2017 20:48:55 +0000

Vicki Bier is Professor Emerita in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Department of Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she directed the Center for Human Performance and Risk Analysis (formerly the Center for Human Performance in Complex Systems) from 1995 until 2021. She has over 30 years of experience in risk analysis for the nuclear power, chemical, petrochemical, and aerospace industries. Dr. Bier’s research focuses on applications of risk analysis and related methods to problems of security, critical infrastructure protection, climate change, and pandemic response. Dr. Bier was elected a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis in 1996, from which she received the Distinguished Achievement Award in 2007. She served as the engineering editor for Risk Analysis from 1997 through 2001, and is currently the Editor in Chief of Decision Analysis.

Jessica Calarco

mreinfeldt — Thu, 18 May 2023 20:04:14 +0000

Jessica (Jess) Calarco is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Calarco has published three books: Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School, A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum, and Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research (with Mario Luis Small). Calarco’s fourth book, She’ll Fix It, will be published in 2024 by Penguin Random House and reveals how US families, schools, employers, and policymakers get away with treating women as their social safety net, and forcing women to bear the risk of precarity, rather than demanding or building the kind of sturdy social scaffolding that would better support us all. Calarco has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, CNN, Insider Higher Ed, and Business Insider. Calarco has also been featured on NPR, CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, and other radio and television news outlets, and has contributed quotes to dozens of news stories in a wide range of national and international news outlets from the Wall Street Journal and Fortune Magazine to Scientific American and the Chronicle of Higher Education, to Glamour and Good Housekeeping and Ms. Magazine. Calarco has also offered expert testimony as part of a Congressional briefings on families’ decisions regarding Covid-19 vaccines, and she has worked closely with local policymakers on initiatives related to digital equity and to supporting families and children in times of need.

Areas of expertise, contd.: Inequalities Related to Social Class, Gender, and Race/ethnicity; Education and Family Policy; Qualitative Methods

Allison Daminger

mreinfeldt — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 16:03:30 +0000

Allison Daminger is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on how and why gender continues to shape individuals’ experiences at home and at work, even as support for gender-egalitarianism keeps growing. Daminger’s first book, What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press in 2025. Daminger is passionate about translating academic research for readers outside the academy, and her work has been featured in venues such as the New York Times, the BBC, and Psychology Today.

Dawn Davis

jnweaver — Thu, 04 May 2017 21:20:24 +0000

Dawn Davis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism. She grew up in Fort Atkinson, WI. She received her BS in Biochemistry from UW–Madison. She then received her MD and PhD degrees from the University of Chicago. She completed her clinical training at University of Washington in Seattle and at UW–Madison. She currently practices endocrinology at the UW and VA, runs a federally funded research program focused on diabetes and obesity, and teaches in the graduate and medical schools.

Amy Diestler

mreinfeldt — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:41:28 +0000

Amy Diestler serves as the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Associate Director of Data Security. Prior to this role, she worked as an IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance Analyst and a Senior IT Auditor & Consultant. She has worked on software and cybersecurity framework implementations, IT audits and risk assessments, IT strategic planning, security incidents, and IT policies and procedures documentation. She holds a GIAC Security Leadership Certification and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor. She earned an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and a BBA in Accounting from St. Norbert College.

Mel Freitag

jbedermann — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 21:10:07 +0000

Dr. Mel Freitag (she/her) is the Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Training and Innovation at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Freitag serves as a leader and consultant in curriculum development, programming, strategic planning and engaging in recruitment, retention and advising initiatives to create equitable and inclusive organizational practices and policies. She advocates for bold and creative diversity, equity and inclusion models to improve faculty/staff/student recruitment, hiring, orientation, communications/ and professional development. She strives to provide evidence-based tools and strategies for organizations, groups and individuals that are grounded in social justice, health equity, intersectionality, and antiracism. Because of her networks that are both within local, state and national communities of practice, she continues to develop successful and impactful programs, events, and curricula that are aligned with her commitment to create a dynamic, inclusive and diverse environment where all can thrive. In her spare time (what is that?), she enjoys hanging out with her inquisitive 9-year-old daughter Bennett (Benny) and nurse midwife partner Denise, her geriatric but adventurous cats who don’t get along Luce and Pirata, and surfing the internet through productive procrastination.

A speaker fee applies for this talk.

Michaela Hoffelmeyer

mreinfeldt — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 16:50:37 +0000

In 2023, I joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as part of the Dairy Innovation Hub-funded faculty. As part of this position, I will be conducting dairy-related research on topics such as robotics, labor, market concentration, and alternative farm models in the years to come. I earned my Ph.D. at Penn State University in Rural Sociology with a dual-title in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. My work seeks to understand how various groups access agricultural resources and how structural inequalities influence food production and environmental sustainability. Over the past several years, I have worked with rural and urban women farmers, queer/LGBTQ+ farmers, midscale farms undergoing succession and transfer, and meat processing workers.

Pronouns: She/her or they/them

Lisa Imhoff

jbedermann — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 19:20:27 +0000

Lisa Imhoff (she/her) serves as Associate Dean of Inclusive Excellence at the School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Lisa has over 17 years of driving change, innovation, and growth among individuals, teams, and organizations. Through her work and lived experiences, Lisa has consistently applied an equity and inclusion lens. She has a record of advancing equity initiatives in the healthcare, non-profit, and academic sectors. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Lisa has direct experience working with underserved communities and developing healthcare professionals to provide culturally aware and sensitive care.

Currently, Lisa serves as a DEI organizational strategist and consultant. She is an instructor in two health equity-focused courses and frequently serves as a guest lecturer in the Doctor of Pharmacy curriculum. In 2022, Lisa was named one Wisconsin’s Most Influential Asian American Leaders.

Lisa is a two-time alumna of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, earning her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Women’s Studies and Master of Science in Social Work.

*A speaker fee applies for Lisa’s speaking engagements

Morgan Jerald

mreinfeldt — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 21:42:44 +0000

Morgan Jerald is an assistant professor of psychology at UW-Madison. She received her BA from Spelman College and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her current research examines sociocultural factors, such as the media and group stereotypes, that influence Black women’s gender beliefs, sexual well-being, experiences of sexualization, and health & well-being.

Derek Johnson

mreinfeldt — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 15:40:01 +0000

Derek Johnson is Professor and Department Chair in Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of the books Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries as well as Transgenerational Media Industries: Adults, Children, and the Reproduction of Culture.