Appendix B

Biographical Sketches of Planning Committee Members, Speakers, and Moderators

WORKSHOP PLANNING COMMITTEE

Vicki J. Magley (Chair) is a professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Connecticut. She has a Ph.D. in social and organizational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The main focus of her research lies within the domain of occupational health psychology and combines both organizational and feminist perspectives in the study of workplace sexual harassment and incivility. She has been studying sexual harassment for 25 years, focusing on its antecedents and consequences for both individuals and organizations, as well as how both individuals and organizations manage sexual harassment. Additionally, she has evaluated sexual harassment awareness training programs and continues her writing on the liability-driven nature of sexual harassment training that is widespread in American companies. She has studied and advocates for civility interventions as an alternative approach to the current typical sexual harassment interventions. Much of her research has resulted from consulting with organizations and federal agencies in understanding their climate of mistreatment and in evaluating interventions designed to alter that climate. She has been a consultant to the World Bank Group, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, and the National Park Service on sexual harassment climate change efforts and to the U.S. Department of Interior on its self-study of sexual harassment in their bureaus. She has testified to the Department of Defense Judicial Proceedings Panel on the impact of

sexual harassment, how feared retaliation inhibits reporting, and the (unfortunate) lack of efficacy of sexual harassment awareness training programs. Most recently, she was one of four research experts on the committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that produced the 2018 consensus study on sexual harassment in academia. She has been speaking at universities and professional societies about the findings and importance of that report and is on the follow-up advisory committee that is working with 60 universities across the country to implement the recommendations of the report.

NiCole T. Buchanan is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Michigan State University. She has a Ph.D. in clinical-community psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on harassment and its impact on organizational climate, employee well-being, and professional development. Specifically, she examines the interplay of race, gender, and victimization and how social identity dimensions affect the nature of harassment; how it is perceived by targets and bystanders; its impact on psychological, occupational, and academic outcomes; and organizational best practices. She also studies barriers to equity and inclusion in higher education: namely, how evaluations of faculty research reflect both discipline-based and identity-based biases that result in the formal and informal epistemic exclusion of marginalized scholars and the scholarship they produce. She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, four divisions of the American Psychological Association (Society of Clinical Psychology, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, and Society for the Psychology of Women), and has received national and international awards for her research, teaching, and professional service. She is on the Advisory Group of the Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She served on the Research and Content Expert Workgroup for the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Congress in conjunction with the National Academies to examine the prevalence and cost of sexual harassment in the U.S. workplace. She has been highlighted in hundreds of media outlets and is a featured speaker in such venues as TEDx and National Public Radio, and she provides bias and diversity-related training and consultation for medical professionals, academic institutions, and other practicing professionals.

Carol W. Greider is a professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Working together with Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, she discovered telomerase, an enzyme that maintains telomeres, or chromosome ends, and she shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009 with Dr. Blackburn and Jack Szostak for their work on telomeres and telomerase. Prior to her current position, she held several positions at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, first as an independent Cold Spring Harbor fellow, when she cloned and characterized the RNA component of telomerase. She then was appointed as an assistant investigator, followed later by appointment to investigator. She expanded the focus of her telomere research to include the role of telomere length in cellular senescence, cell death, and cancer. Subsequently, she moved her laboratory to the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she was appointed as the Daniel Nathans professor and director of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. At Johns Hopkins, her group continued to study the biochemistry of telomerase and determined the secondary structure of the human telomerase RNA. In addition, she characterized the loss of telomere function in mice, which allowed an understanding of short telomere syndromes in humans, such as bone marrow failure, pulmonary fibrosis, and other diseases. She currently directs a group of eight scientists studying both the role of short telomeres in age-related disease and cancer and the regulatory mechanisms that maintain telomere length.

Melissa L. Kwon is the associate director for prevention at the PATH to Care Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology with minors in ethnic studies and education from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in education with an emphasis in research methodology and a Ph.D. in education with an emphasis in cultural perspectives and comparative education from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has dedicated her career to working in and collaborating with higher education institutions, community organizations, and state agencies around preventing domestic, intimate partner, and sexual violence, as well as eliminating oppression. She has worked to prevent domestic and sexual violence at the statewide level through strategic planning, program planning, and collaborative leadership at state agencies, including the Minnesota Office of Higher Education and the Minnesota

Department of Health. She promotes gender equity, racial equity, and education equity through teaching, research, evaluation, and community work.

Larry R. Martinez is an associate professor and associate chair in the Department of Psychology at Portland State University. He earned his B.A., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees at Rice University. His primary area of research is diversity and inclusion in workplace contexts, with a particular emphasis on understanding the experiences of underrepresented, marginalized, and underresearched populations. He also focuses on understanding how employees can be effective allies for one another. This work has received federal funding through a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. He has published on the topic of sexual and gender harassment, and he participated as an expert panelist at a plenary session at the higher education summit of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Seattle in 2019.

Nicole M. Merhill is director of the Office for Gender Equity and University Title IX Coordinator at Harvard University. She oversees Harvard’s overall Title IX system, including direct support and consultation to the university’s 50+ Title IX resource coordinators, development and implementation of education programming and prevention efforts, and direct support to community members. She also serves as a representative for the university and a co-lead for the Working Group on Evaluation: Measuring Climate and Gauging Progress on Campus for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Action Collaborative, of which Harvard University is a founding member. She also served on the survey design team of the Survey on Sexual Assault and Misconduct of the Association of American Universities, which was administrated at 33 participating institutions and reached 181,752 student respondents. Prior to her position at Harvard, she worked for more than 15 years as a civil rights attorney, with experience in various protected class statuses, including sex, race, color, national origin, disability, and age. She has a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and English from Purdue University and a J.D. and a master’s degree in education law from the University of New Hampshire School of Law.

WORKSHOP SPEAKERS AND MODERATORS

Kathryn Becker-Blease is an associate professor and director of the School of Psychological Science at Oregon State University. A developmental psychologist, she has researched trauma across the lifespan and effective teaching and learning in higher education. Her most recent work focuses on the intersection of trauma, justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and academic success in higher education. She has a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of Oregon.

Jennifer Berdahl is a professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research tackles issues of gender and power at work, with a focus on sexual harassment and organizational culture. She frequently presents her research to professional, media, and academic audiences and serves as an expert witness in individual and class action discrimination cases in the United States and Canada. She has a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Kelley Bonner is staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where she works to create and streamline innovative prevention and response services for sexual harassment and sexual assault for all federal employees, contractors, and affiliates at the agency. She has advanced training in workplace resilience and violence prevention. With over 10 years of researching violence trends and working clinically with perpetrators and victims of violence both in the United States and Europe, she believes the key to reducing workplace violence is creating a multidisciplined and comprehensive approach. She is a clinical social worker and holds certifications as a clinical trauma professional in emotional intelligence and mindfulness, and she also holds a master’s degree in criminal justice.

Robert Brinkerhoff is an internationally recognized expert in evaluation and learning effectiveness and is also the creator of the success case method, a highly regarded and carefully crafted impact evaluation approach to determining how well a program works. Over his 40-year career, he has provided consultation to dozens of multinational organizations around the globe. He has been a keynote speaker and presenter at hundreds of conferences worldwide and has authored several books, including The Success Case Method, Telling Training’s Story, Courageous Training, and most recently Improving Performance Through Learning: A Practical Guide for

Designing High Performance Learning Journeys. He has a Ph.D. in program evaluation from the University of Virginia and is a retired professor at Western Michigan University, where he coordinated graduate programs in human resource development.

Janine Austin Clayton is associate director for research on women’s health and director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is the architect of the NIH policy requiring scientists to consider sex as a biological variable across the research spectrum. This policy is part of NIH’s initiative to enhance research reproducibility through rigor and transparency. As co-chair of the NIH Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers, with NIH director Francis Collins, she also leads NIH’s efforts to advance women in science careers. Prior to joining ORWH, she was the deputy clinical director of the NIH’s National Eye Institute. A board-certified ophthalmologist, her research interests include autoimmune ocular diseases and the role of sex and gender in health and disease. She is the author of more than 120 scientific publications, journal articles, and book chapters. She received her undergraduate degree with honors from The Johns Hopkins University and her medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine. She has received numerous awards, including the Senior Achievement Award from the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the European Uveitis Patient Interest Association Clinical Uveitis Research Award. She is also the recipient of a 2010 silver fellow by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the American Medical Women’s Association Lila A. Wallis Women’s Health Award and the Wenger Award for Excellence in Public Service, and the Bernadine Healy Award for Visionary Leadership in Women’s Health. She was an honoree for the Woman’s Day Red Dress Awards and the American Medical Association’s Dr. Nathan Davis Awards for Outstanding Government Service.

Theodosia Cook is chief diversity officer for the four-campus university system of the University of Colorado. In that position she helps develop and implement system-wide policies and initiatives that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. She coordinates and collaborates with chief diversity officers, faculty, and administrators on each of the campuses. She holds a B.A. in political science from Sewanee: The University of the South and an M.A. in education leadership from Teachers College of Columbia University.

Cindy A. Crusto is a professor of psychology in psychiatry and deputy chair for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine; Title IX coordinator at Yale University; and the director of program evaluation and child trauma research at The Consultation Center, a Yale and Connecticut Mental Health Center–affiliated center whose mission is to promote health and wellness, prevent mental health and substance abuse problems, and advance equity and social justice. She is a noted expert in addressing culture, context, and human diversity in clinical work and community-engaged research and program evaluation. She has held leadership roles in the American Evaluation Association, including chairing a task force that developed practice guidelines for addressing culture and context in the profession and in the provision of evaluation services to the public and to evaluation consumers. She has a B.A. in psychology from Vassar College, an M.A. in clinical-community psychology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and a Ph.D. in clinical-community psychology from the University of South Carolina. She completed predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships in clinical-community psychology in the Department of Psychiatry of the Yale University School of Medicine.

Jennifer M. Gómez is an assistant professor at Wayne State University in the Department of Psychology and Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute for Child & Family Development. She is also a board member and chair of the Research Advisory Committee at the Center for Institutional Courage, a nonprofit institution dedicated to scientific research, wide-reaching education, and data-driven action promoting institutional courage. She is an incoming fellow at the Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, as well as the lead co-editor of a special issue of Journal of Trauma & Dissociation—Discrimination, Violence, & Healing in Marginalized Communities. Her research on cultural betrayal trauma theory has been recognized by the Ford Foundation and the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research. She has a B.A. in psychology from San Diego State University, and an M.A. in psychology and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon.

Lisa M. Hooper has served as an educator, scholar, researcher, mentor, supervisor, and leader for the past 20 years, since receiving her Ph.D. from George Washington University. Early in her career she served as an investigator, project director, and research instructor at Georgetown University

School of Medicine, and later as tenured professor at the University of Alabama and the University of Louisville, directing research focused on the intersection and combined effects of systems (e.g., school, family, neighborhood, community, health care) and race, ethnicity, and culture. Her research constitutes a collaborative, integrative, approach to ecological systems, psychology, education, and whole-person outcomes (e.g., academic, emotional, mental, and physical). The idea of systems and whole-person care has applicability to individuals from cradle to grave and transportability among diverse ecological systems. She has led grants funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Mental Health, and, most recently, the United Way to co-design a trauma-informed care program with parents, for parents. She continues to serve as a National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities scholar. Recently, she collaborated with the Office of Minority Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to create an educational initiative focused on cultural and linguistic competence.

Bianca Kaushal-Carter is the manager for prevention education in the Institute Discrimination and Harassment Response Office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She earned her M.S.W. from the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis where her research and practical training focused on systems approaches to violence and injury prevention. At MIT, she has worked with campus partners to develop the promoting inclusive environments workshops and deliver training, both in-person and online, to more than 10,000 students, faculty, and staff members annually. In addition to these initiatives, she also serves as a staff representative on the MIT Committee for Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response and works with the MIT implementation team to advance recommendations created in response to the Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2018).

Eden King is Lynette S. Autrey professor of industrial-organizational psychology at Rice University. She is pursuing a program of research that aims to make work better for everyone. This research—which has yielded over 100 scholarly products and has been featured in outlets such as The New York Times, Good Morning America, and Harvard Business Review—-

addresses three primary themes: (1) current manifestations of discrimination and barriers to work–life balance in organizations, (2) consequences of such challenges for its targets and their workplaces, and (3) individual and organizational strategies for reducing discrimination and increasing support for families. In addition to her scholarship, she has partnered with organizations to improve diversity climate, increase fairness in selection systems, and to design and implement diversity training programs. She is currently co-editor of the Journal of Business and Psychology and immediate past president of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Kurt Kraiger is a professor and chair of the Department of Management at the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis. He received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Cincinnati and a Ph.D. in industrial-organizational psychology from The Ohio State University. He has published extensively and presented workshops in areas related to workplace training generally and training evaluation specifically.

Michael P. Leiter is honorary professor of organizational psychology at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. Previously, he held the Canada research chair in occupational health at Acadia University. He has published widely on job burnout, work engagement, and workplace civility, with over 98,000 citations on Google Scholar. His recent initiatives have focused on improving the quality of work life through enhancing civility and respect among colleagues as a strategy for reducing burnout. He currently writes and consults through Michael Leiter & Associates in Nova Scotia, Canada. He has a B.A. from Duke University, an M.A. from Vanderbilt University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon.

Elissa L. Perry is a professor in the Social-Organizational Psychology Program at Teachers College at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the role of demographic characteristics (age, gender, disability, race) in human resource judgments and organizational behavior. She is also interested in strategies (training, organizational climate change, inclusive leadership) for managing diversity and sexual harassment. Her most recent and active scholarship is in the areas of inclusive leadership and the impact of organizational racial and gender diversity on organizational outcomes. She has a Ph.D. in organizational psychology and theory from Carnegie Mellon University.

Alec M. Smidt is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon and completed his residency at Yale. His research focuses on the effects of interpersonal and institutional betrayal on those who have experienced these harms. Of particular interest to him is how institutional betrayal may exacerbate the effects of interpersonal trauma and how certain groups (e.g., women and sexual and gender minorities) may be more at risk than others for experiencing both interpersonal and institutional betrayal in a variety of institutional contexts.

Raechel Soicher is an instructor in the School of Psychological Science at Oregon State University. She recently received a Ph.D. after defending her dissertation, “Implementation Science in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: A Mixed-Methods Study of the Utility Value Intervention in General Psychology Courses.” As an applied psychologist, her interdisciplinary research focuses on applying an implementation science lens to the translation of cognitive psychology to promote evidence-based teaching in higher education.

Jane G. Stapleton is executive director of practice at the University of New Hampshire Prevention Innovations Research Center and the co-founder and president of Soteria Solutions, which provides research-based, strategic, and thoughtful approaches to prevent sexual harassment and interpersonal harassment. At Soteria she directs curriculum development, technical assistance, and training that creates lasting change by building safe and respectful workplaces and learning environments. Her work focuses on translating research to practice and using data to ensure that prevention strategies meet target populations’ specific needs and characteristics. She is co-author of Bringing in the Bystander^®, a scientifically evaluated and proven-effective prevention program for workplaces, colleges and universities, and high schools. She also co-developed the Know Your Power^® Bystander Intervention Social Marketing Campaign. She is the project director for Soteria’s collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to assess climate and build NOAA-specific prevention strategies.

Karen R. Stubaus serves as vice president for academic affairs at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, responsible for a broad array of academic and strategic matters across the University’s three geographical locations in New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden. She has been a leader in

increasing the diversity of the faculty and in promoting women’s leadership at all levels of the institution. She is centrally responsible for faculty labor relations, for the university’s initiative on sexual harassment prevention and culture change, and for increasing professional development opportunities for contingent faculty. She also teaches the Department of American Studies of the School of Arts and Sciences on both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is currently engaged in a study of the intersection of graduate student activism, sexual harassment, and collective bargaining. She has a Ph.D. in 17th-century American history.

Kiana Swearingen is deputy Title IX coordinator for education and prevention at the University of Washington. She has worked in the anti-violence field for 15 years and in higher education for 6 years. Her work is centered on intersectional and trauma-informed prevention and response to sexual harassment, relationship violence, stalking, sexual exploitation, and sexual assault. She believes that successful approaches to preventing sex- and gender-based violence must engage individuals as agents of change, give communities practical strategies to build respectful and inclusive environments, and analyze the structures and policies that perpetuate and exacerbate harm. She has trained regionally and nationally on theory-driven community-centered best practices for developing, conducting, and evaluating violence prevention efforts and building innovative systems-level responses for survivors.

Nelia Viveiros is associate vice chancellor for academic operations at the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus. A first-generation, Latinx leader whose career in higher education has spanned over 20 years, she oversees a range of matters relating to Title IX, Title VII, equity and compliance, conflict de-escalation, training, and prevention programming across the University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campuses.

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