Speakers

A Conversation with Women of Color at IUPUI: Examining Intent and Impact in the Workplace

Amanda L. Bonilla (she/her/hers) serves as the assistant director for social justice education in the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. As a first generation student and woman of color, Amanda’s personal story of navigating a predominantly white campus cultivated her passion for cross-cultural dialogue and student advocacy in an effort to create more understanding and inclusive college environments for all. Amanda’s work focuses on creating co-curricular learning opportunities by helping students understand and navigate their identities and privileges so that they may be empowered to create positive social change.

A Conversation with Women of Color at IUPUI: Examining Intent and Impact in the Workplace

Charmayne ‘Charli’ Champion-Shaw serves as the director of IUPUI’s American Indian Programs and director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies minor in the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI. She is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne Arapahoe Tribe of Oklahoma but was born and raised in East Chicago, Indiana. Charli is a social justice scholar and teaches several classes all with a focus on identity, power, and issues related to native identity and sovereignty.

Navigating the Workplace: Experiences of LGBTQ+ Women at IUPUI

Sherry Coleman has been with IUPUI since 2007 currently in Campus Facility Services as a building services supervisor for several buildings on and off campus. Coleman shares that this is the most diverse place she has ever worked for and appreciates the good feeling accompanied by working somewhere where she isn’t judged for who she is.

Networking and Social Capital

Mary Dankoski is the School of Medicine’s executive associate dean for faculty affairs, professional development, and diversity. Dr. Dankoski’s interests include the advancement of women and underrepresented minority faculty, the study of faculty vitality, how policies shape faculty life, and organizational and faculty development in academic medicine. She is also the recipient of the IUPUI Outstanding Woman Leader Award and was most recently recognized as a Woman of Influence by the Indianapolis Business Journal. She completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Michigan and earned her Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy with a graduate minor in women’s studies from Purdue University.

Navigating the Workplace: Experiences of LGBTQ+ Women at IUPUI

Taylor Dooley is an IUPUI alum, previously worked as an interim director in the IUPUI LGBTQ+ Center, and currently serves as an admissions counselor in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. She works with incoming students, non-resident students, and LGBTQ+ students who go through the prior conduct process. Taylor has also been a member of the IUPUI LGBTQ+ Faculty and Staff Council.

Navigating Academia for Faculty

Margie Ferguson began serving as the senior associate vice chancellor of academic affairs in January 2016. Previously, she served as the assistant vice president for statewide academic relations in the Office of the Executive Vice President for University Academic Affairs at Indiana University. She also is a professor of political science in the School of Liberal Arts.

Navigating the Workplace: Experiences of LGBTQ+ Women at IUPUI

Christine Garrison has been a principal mass storage specialist in the UITS Division of Research Technologies since 2001. She helps researchers store their terabytes of data in the Scholarly Data Archive. Christine is also an author of science fiction and fantasy stories, having published nine books in those genres.

Navigating Academia for Faculty

Gina Sánchez Gibau is the associate vice chancellor for faculty diversity and inclusion, and co-director of the IUPUI Next Generation 2.0 program. She is also an associate professor of anthropology in the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI. Her research interests include racial and ethnic identity development among the African diaspora, multicultural pedagogy, and professional development and advancement of underrepresented groups in higher education.

The Value of Mentoring and Developmental Relationships

Tara Hobson is an alumna of the Higher Education Resource Services (HERS) Leadership Program for Women in Higher Education, a doctoral candidate in Higher Education Leadership at Indiana State University, and director of graduate programs and student success at the School of Medicine. Tara has mentored for many IUPUI programs including the Staff Mentoring Program. Past honors include Outstanding Woman Staff Leader, the IUSM Hard Wired Award for Achievement, Mentor of the Year Award, and most recently the 2019 recipient of the Deb Cowley Staff Leadership Award. At the national level, she is a certified facilitator for the National Research Mentoring Network/Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research.

How Do I Do It ALL?

Julie Lash has been a part of IUPUI Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) since 2000 and became director in 2007. Her clinical interests include treatment of trauma-based symptoms, ego state integration, and identity development in a multicultural context. She is also involved in initiatives supporting the health and safety of the IUPUI community, including suicide prevention training, the Behavioral Consultation Team, JagsCARE, campus crisis response, and the development of trauma-informed response protocols.

Navigating the Workplace: Experiences of LGBTQ+ Women at IUPUI

Anne Mitchell serves as the director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and deputy Title IX coordinator for IUPUI, IU Fort Wayne, School of Medicine, and IUPUC. Anne oversees affirmative action planning, employment monitoring, accommodations for employees with disabilities, accessibility concerns, and investigations into concerns related to sexual misconduct and discrimination. She serves on a number of committees on campus related to issues of equity including, the ADA Steering Committee; Sexual Assault Prevention, Intervention, and Response; and the Equal Opportunity Council.

Work-Life Balance: Stop the Obsession

Megan M. Palmer is associate dean of faculty affairs, professional development, and diversity at the School of Medicine. Dr. Palmer is also associate professor in both the Department of Emergency Medicine and in the higher education program at the School of Education at IU. She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University, a M.S. from Colorado State University, and B.A. from the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota.

The Art of Self-Promotion

Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber is a professor of clinical medicine and pediatrics and the executive director of the IU National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health. She completed her education at California State University Long Beach, attended Cornell University College of Medicine, and her residency was completed at University Hospitals of Cleveland. She is board certified in adolescent and internal medicine and focuses on primary care, care of childhood cancer survivors, eating disorders in adults, and health and wellness.

GRIT: How to Bounce Back From Adversity, Challenge, and Failure

Kim Saxton is a clinical professor of marketing at the Kelley School of Business. Dr. Saxton believes marketers should make data-driven decisions to improve their effectiveness. She naturally came by this interest with a Bachelor of Science in marketing from MIT Sloan, Massachusetts. Kim was recognized with a Woman's Leadership Award by the IUPUI's Office for Women in 2018.

Navigating the Workplace: Experiences of LGBTQ+ Women at IUPUI

Shelly Snider (she/her/hers) is a career services specialist for the School of Engineering and Technology. As a lesbian wife and mother, Shelly is passionate about ensuring that LGBTQ+ students, faculty, and staff at IUPUI feel connected to each other and are provided with equitable opportunities. She is the first woman chair of the LGBTQ+ Faculty Staff Council and has served on multiple campuswide committees and work-groups focused on the needs of the LGBTQ+ community at IUPUI.

Navigating the Workplace: Experiences of LGBTQ+ Women at IUPUI

Originally from Homewood, Illinois, AC Stokes earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Oberlin College. After graduation, she worked as an LGBT community coordinator in the Multicultural Resource Center at Oberlin College. She then became the director of LGBT affairs and assistant director of multicultural and diversity affairs at the University of Florida before returning to Oberlin College as the interim associate director of its Multicultural Resource Center. Stokes has been a student success advisor in the Office of Academic and Career Development at IUPUI since 2016.

Enhancing Employee Engagement and Satisfaction at Work

Juletta Toliver currently serves as the senior human resources director for IUPUI and has been with the university for over 30 years. It is her goal that human resources is instrumental in leading and supporting strategic goals of the campus by ensuring professional development opportunities, maximizing efficiencies, and increasing employee engagement.

Work-Life Balance: Stop the Obsession

Emily Walvoord is a graduate of Miami University, Ohio, and Northwestern University Medical School. As the associate dean for student affairs in the School of Medicine, Dr. Walvoord focuses on overseeing enhanced statewide delivery and continuous improvement in the areas of academic advising, career mentoring, wellness, and development of a new student success program. In addition to other services at all nine campuses. Dr. Walvoord’s research and clinical interests have focused on hypopituitarism, growth hormone deficiency, and early puberty.

The Value of Mentoring and Developmental Relationships

Etta Ward has led research development operations in the IUPUI Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research for over 17 years. Ward helps advance the IUPUI research mission and promote independent research success through strategic programming and support for an array of diverse research and creative activities. One such program is the Enhanced Mentoring Program with Opportunities for Ways to Excel in Research (EMPOWER) which aims to increase the research productivity of women and minority faculty members and aids them in successfully navigating the promotion and tenure process.

The Value of Mentoring and Developmental Relationships

Julie Welch is associate professor of clinical emergency medicine and director of mentoring training for the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI). She was a founding member of the IUPUI Mentoring Academy and serves as the faculty mentoring liaison for the School of Medicine. As former assistant dean for faculty affairs and professional development, she continues to champion issues surrounding mentoring, work-life policies, and women in medicine and science. She currently divides her time between academic emergency medicine at IU Health Methodist Hospital, the Indiana CTSI, and mentoring initiatives at the institutional and national levels.

GRIT: How to Bounce Back From Adversity, Challenge, and Failure

Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow is an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Management and Business Law at the Kelley School of Business where she teaches undergraduate and M.B.A. courses focused on team dynamics, leadership, negotiations, and cultural intelligence. Her educational credentials include an undergraduate degree in journalism, a master’s degree in higher education administration from Ohio University, and a J.D. from the Maurer School of Law, IU Bloomington.

A Conversation with Women of Color at IUPUI: Examining Intent and Impact in the Workplace

Kim White-Mills is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies in the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI. Dr. White-Mills has a Ph.D. in organizational communication from Ohio University. She is involved in the study of organizational communication, women and communication in various settings, and the concept of incivility.