Get in touch with our officers!
Send an e-mail to gwis@grad.umass.edu. Use ‘outreach,’ ‘mentoring,’ ‘finance,’ ‘communications,’ or ‘diversity’ in the subject and your message will be sorted automatically to a particular committee chair.
Current Executive Board (2022-2023):
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- Finance and Administration Co-Chair: Kaitlyn Chhe, Chemistry
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- Finance and Administration Co-Chair: Bhavna Kalyanaraman, Chemistry
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- Mentoring Co-Chair: Samantha Schultz, Molecular and Cellular Biology
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- Mentoring Co-Chair: Allison Poh, Computer Sciences
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- Outreach Co-Chair: Kuhu Choudhary, Environmental Engineering
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- Outreach Co-Chair: Ogechi Vivian Nwadiaru, Industrial Engineering
Previous GWIS Executive Board members:
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- Outreach Co-Chair: Hannah Wharton, Environmental Engineering (2021-2022)
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- Communications Co-Chair: Stephanie Le, Chemistry (2020-2022)
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- Advocacy Chair: Carey Dogan, Chemical Engineering (2020-2022)
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- Outreach Co-Chair: Bridget Benner, Mechanical Engineering (2020-2022)
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- Diversity and Inclusion Char: Kimberly Acevedo, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (2020-2021)
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- Communications Co-Chair: Laura Fattaruso, Geosciences (2020-2021)
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- Mentoring Co-Chair: Merritt Harlan, Civil and Environmental Engineering (2019-2021)
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- Mentoring Co-Chair: Xuyen Mai, Environmental Engineering (2019-2021)
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- Fiona O’Donnell, Civil Engineering: Outreach Committee Co-Chair (2019-2020)
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- Daria Atkinson, Physics: Finance and Administration Co-Chair (2017-2020)
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- Hannah Johlas, Mechanical Engineering: Outreach Committee Co-Chair (2018-2020)
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- Kadambari Devarajan, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology: Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair (2019-2020)
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- Paige Czarnecki, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering: Communications Co-Chair (2017-2020)
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- Uma Nudurupati, Chemistry: Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair (2019-2020)
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- Annie McGrew, Economics: Finance and Administration Committee Co-Chair (Summer 2019)
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- Christie Cutting, Chemistry: Communications Chair (2017-2019)
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- Destenie Nock, Industrial Engineering: Outreach Co-Chair (2017-2019)
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- Raquel Bryant, Geosciences: Mentoring Co-Chair (2017-2019)
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- Pritha Dutta, Management Science: Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair (2018-2019)
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- Meenakshi Upadhyaya, Electrical and Computer Engineering: Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair (2018-2019)
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- Lily Jeznach, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Executive Co-Chair: Administration (2015-2016); Mentoring Committee Chair (2013-2015)
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- Arianne Bazillo, Civil and Environmental Engineering: Outreach committee co-chair (2013-2015)
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- Katie Booras, Civil Engineering: Networking committee chair (2014-2016)
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- Kerianne Dobosz, Chemical Engineering: Professional Development committee co-chair (2015-2016)
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- Dina Navon, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology: Communications committee chair (2014-2016)
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- Kathryn Vescio, Plant Biology: Professional Development committee co-chair (2015-2016)
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- Maritza Mallek – Environmental Conservation; Communications committee co-chair 2014-2015
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- Wystan Carswell – Civil Engineering; Finance committee chair 2014-2015
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- Katrina Rieger – Chemical Engineering; Executive co-chair (University Liaison) 2014-2015
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- Jess McIver – Physics; Executive co-chair (Administrator) 2013-2015
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- Advocacy Committee Chair: Dr. Joelle Amara Labastide, NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biophysics
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- Cathy Walker – Polymer Science; Finance committee chair 2013-2014
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- Hannah Blau – Computer Science; Member-at-large 2013-2014
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- Katie Maher – MBC; Outreach committee chair 2013-2014
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- Tina Kuksin – VASCI; Executive co-chair (University Liaison) 2013-2014
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- Rachel Koh, Mechanical Engineering; Executive Co-Chair (2016-2017)
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- Amy Ryan, Neuroscience and Behavior; Executive Co-chair (2016-2017)
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- Amy Strauss, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Finance committee chair (2015-2017)
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- Aditi Naik, Polymer Science and Engineering; Mentoring committee co-chair (2016-2017)
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- Cynthia Castro, Civil Engineering; Networking committee co-chair (2016-2017)
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- Zana Cranmer, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering; Outreach committee co-chair (2016-2017)
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- Outreach Committee Co-chair: Maggie Ugolini, Neuroscience and Behavior
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- Mentoring Co-Chair: Samantha Schultz, Molecular and Cellular Biology
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- Executive Chair: Laura Parker, Polymer Science and Engineering
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- Rachel Koh, Mechanical Engineering; Executive Co-Chair (2016-2017)
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- Amy Ryan, Neuroscience and Behavior; Executive Co-chair (2016-2017)
Not pictured: Dana Algaier, Chemistry: founder of peer mentoring groups
