Women@NCSA provides professional development and networking opportunities for employees, affiliates, and students. Our objective is to create a more diverse and inclusive environment through outreach, talks and events. The monthly events are structured to drive conversations around our experiences as women in the workplace, develop professional skills, and to create and strengthen professional relationships. W@NCSA hopes to empower women and provide a network of support within NCSA and the community.
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Women@NCSA Organizing Committee:
Kalina Borkiewicz
Alice Delage
Emily Scherbring
Melanie Moore
Past Events:
- Amy Newell, Director of Engineering, Wistia: “Suffering, Authenticity, Productivity: Lessons I Learned from Bipolar Disorder”
- Megan Lang, research scientist, NCSA: "What Does Effective Mentorship Look Like?"
- Amy Schuele, Assistant Director of Operations, NCSA
Special session for NCSA SPIN & REU students
- Isak Griffiths, Executive Director, Courage Connection
- Christine Kirkpatrick, Division Director, IT Systems & Services, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego
Panel: "Beyond #MeToo in Tech and Academic Workplaces"
Moderator: Anita S. Chan, Associate Professor, Media & Cinema Studies, UIUC
- Angie Wolters — Director, Women in Engineering
- Emily Scherbring — Assistant Director of Human Resources, NCSA
- Kelly Cross — Visiting Research Scientist, Bioengineering at Illinois
- Katie Lee — Graduate Student, Laboratory for Evolutionary Endocrinology
- Melanie Loots, Executive Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, UIUC
- Gabriella Gonzalez, prof. of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University
- Alina Banerjee, Research Programmer, NCSA
- Lorna Rivera, Senior Research Specialist, UIUC
Lightning Talks, Networking and Teambuilding Activity
- Farzaneh Masoud, Interdisciplinary Research Development Officer, NCSA
- Indira Gutierrez Polo, research programmer, NCSA
Women@NCSA - kick-off event
Lightning talks and speed networking: