The Graduate Students of Color Association, the Women of Color Leadership Network at the Center for Women & Community and the Graduate Women in STEM are pleased to invite the graduate students in our campus community to a panel discussion focusing on the politics involved in job interviews and salary negotiations and issues related to intersectional identities. Experienced panelists will address this issue drawing from their own academic and non-academic career paths, also offering tips and strategies to navigate the complexities of job interviews and salary negotiations. Panelists will be available for a Q&A with attendees. The panel will take place on Feb. 18th from 11:30-1pm in Campus Center room 903.
Light lunch will be provided for all participants.
Space is limited, and the registration link is here: http://goo.gl/forms/b3H4lloYtq
Brief Biographies of the Panelists:
Jane G. Miller, Ph.D is an Associate Professor of Management, Chair and MBA faculty at the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst. She has developed professional and academic experience in teaching and researching about negotiation, cross-cultural values, organizational identity, and organizational justice. Her most recent publications can be found in journals such as the International Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Managerial Psychology, and Management and Organization Review.
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at UMass Amherst. She is the author of the short story collection, Blue Talk and Love (2015). She has received several awards for her fiction such as the James Baldwin Memorial Playwriting Award and the Charles Johnson Fiction Award. Her critical essays on gender and sexuality in African Diaspora culture have appeared in Palimpsest, GLQ: Lesbian and Gay Studies Quarterly, The Scholar and Feminist, Ebony.com, The Root.com, and The Feminist Wire (where she is Associate Editor for Arts & Culture), and many others. Her current research project, The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora, explores the links between formal innovation and identity in women’s literature of the African Diaspora. Visit her at www.meccajamilahsullivan.com
Hind Mari, Ed.D. is the director of the Women of Color Leadership Network at the Center for Women and Community at UMass Amherst. Her areas of expertise and interests include women’s empowerment and advocacy work, with emphasis on understanding the intersections of our social identities; cross-cultural communication; conflict resolution; and leadership training. She has presented on these and other social justice topics both locally and nationally. Working at the Women of Color Leadership Network at CWC gives Hind the opportunity to work full time on these issues and to foster growth for women of color. In addition, Hind currently serves as a Town Meeting member in Amherst and is on the steering committee for the project Coming Together: Understanding racism, working for justice & building connections in the Amherst, MA area. Hind’s previous experience includes working as the Assistant Director at the Center for Student Development, working with Registered Student Organizations; as Program Coordinator at the International Programs Office, overseeing the orientation program for international students and scholars; and teaching refugee students at UN schools.
