Gender and Work Symposium
Gender and Work Symposium
May Al-Dabbagh May Al-Dabbagh is an assistant professor at New York University Abu Dhabi and has an associated appointment as a global network professor at New York University. She conducts research on gender and work in the Gulf using a combination of social psychology, public policy, and post-colonial feminist lenses. She has published in Organization Science, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Contexts, and Idafat: Arab Journal of Sociology (in Arabic). Her current book project, The Messy Middle, is an ethnography of serial migration in Dubai focusing on motherhood, work, and movement (under contract with Columbia University Press). She has received fellowships from the Center of Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), The Women and Public Policy Program (Harvard), and The Global Institute for Advanced Study and Tisch School of the Arts (NYU). She currently directs Haraka: Experimental Lab for Arab Art and Social Thought which bridges the social sciences and arts at the al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art at NYUAD. Al-Dabbagh holds a BA from Harvard University and a PhD from University of Oxford. For more information on research and artistic collaborations see: www.mayaldabbagh.org |
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Heidi Brooks Heidi Brooks teaches and advises on the subject of everyday leadership: the everyday micro-moments of impact that shape our lived experiences. Creating more courageous communities—especially within organizations—is a particular passion of hers. Dr. Brooks specializes in large-scale culture change projects focused on individual and collective leadership effectiveness in organizations. Interpersonal Dynamics, the MBA elective she has taught for 15 years, is one of the courses most in demand at Yale School of Management. Dr. Brooks pioneered the Everyday Leadership course at SOM, where she first taught the Principles of Everyday Leadership. She has also taught Emotional Intelligence, Power & Politics, Managing Teams and Groups, and Coaching Skills for Managers. Dr. Brooks received her doctorate in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree from Brown University. A life-long experiential learner, you can find her as a student in classrooms as far-ranging as improvisational theater and immersion language lessons. |
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Jessica Clarke Jessica Clarke writes on antidiscrimination law, with a focus on sex, gender, and sexuality. Her work has appeared in law journals including the Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, NYU Law Review, and Yale Law Journal, as well as other outlets including the New England Journal of Medicine, Los Angeles Times, and Harvard Business Review. She has twice received the Dukeminier Award for the best legal scholarship on sexual orientation and gender identity. Professor Clarke graduated from Yale Law School and clerked for Shira Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and Rosemary Pooler of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Before becoming a professor, she was a litigation associate at Covington & Burling in New York. From 2011 to 2018, she taught at the University of Minnesota Law School, where she received the Stanley V. Kinyon award for teacher of the year. In the fall of 2016, she was the Walter V. Schaefer Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and in the fall of 2022, she will be a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. She joined the Vanderbilt Law School faculty in 2018, where she is a Professor of Law, Chancellor Faculty Fellow, and the Co-Director of the George Barrett Social Justice Program. |
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Robin Dembroff Robin Dembroff is an assistant professor of philosophy at Yale University. They specialize in feminist and LGBTQ philosophy, and their work focuses on building models of social systems and classifications that better align with lived experience. Robin has written on these topics for scholarly venues, for the Supreme Court, and in a variety of popular outlets, including Scientific American, The Boston Review, TIME, The Guardian and The New York Review of Books. They are currently writing a book, Real Men on Top: How Patriarchy Weaponizes Gender, under contract with Oxford University Press. |
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Rebecca Henderson Rebecca Henderson is one of 24 University Professors at Harvard University, a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of both the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is an expert on innovation and organizational change, and her research explores the degree to which the private sector can play a major role in building a more sustainable economy, focusing particularly on the relationships between organizational purpose and innovation and productivity. She teaches “Reimagining Capitalism: Business & the Big Problems”, and her book “Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire” will be published in April 2020. Rebecca sits on the boards of Amgen and of Idexx Laboratories. Her publications include the books Leading Sustainable Change and Accelerating Energy Innovation: Lessons from multiple sectors. She was named one of three “Outstanding Directors of 2019” by the Financial Times. |
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Rakesh Khurana Rakesh Khurana, is Danoff Dean of Harvard College, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School, and Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. A distinguished scholar of organizational behavior and leadership, an award-winning teacher, and Faculty Dean, Khurana has been deeply involved in undergraduate education throughout his time at Harvard, having served on a number of important policy committees. Dean Khurana has also written extensively about the CEO labor market and business education. He has co-edited “The Handbook for Leadership Theory and Practice” and “The Handbook for Teaching Leadership,” seminal texts on leadership theory and pedagogical practice. He has been recognized for his commitment to pedagogy, twice earning the Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching. “From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession” (2007) received the American Sociological Association’s Max Weber Book Award. He is currently working on the role of globalization and its impact on American business culture. Khurana received his B.S. from Cornell University, and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. |
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Danya Lagos I am a sociologist and demographer who specializes in how gender is changing in the twenty-first century. My work has been published in the American Sociological Review, Demography and the Annual Review of Sociology. I am an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Sociology Department, and an Associate Editor at Demographic Research. |
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Kathleen McCartney Kathleen McCartney is the 11th president of Smith College. A summa cum laude graduate of Tufts University, she earned master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology from Yale University. Prior to Smith, McCartney was dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 2005 to 2013—only the fifth woman dean in Harvard’s history. A scholar of child development, she has edited nine volumes and written more than 160 journal articles and book chapters. Her editorials and essays on issues of gender, higher education and child and family policy have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, The Boston Globe, Inside Higher Ed and Trusteeship magazine. McCartney has served as a director of the American Council on Education, the Consortium on Financing Higher Education, Five Colleges, Inc., and Tufts University. She also is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. |
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Courtney McCluney Dr. Courtney L. McCluney (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University investigating how practices and norms in organizational contexts create marginalization for employees who are members of historically excluded groups (e.g., Black employees). Dr. McCluney’s work has been published in Organization Science; Gender, Work and Organization; Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: An International Journal; Journal of Vocational Behavior and numerous books including Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience. Dr. McCluney is a regular contributor to Forbes and Harvard Business Review, and she was recently named a Thinklist Amplify Nominee by the University of Bath’s Centre for Business, Organizations, and Society. She is also the co-founder of POISED, a micro-community within the Center for Positive Organizations, member of the Harvard Business School Gender Initiative and the Venture Capital Inclusion Lab at Brown University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, and earned her PhD in Psychology at the University of Michigan and BA in Psychology and Interpersonal/Organizational Communications at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar. Dr. McCluney is a first generation college graduate from High Point, NC. Learn more about her work at her website: http://courtneylmccluney.com/ |
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Banu Özkazanç-Pan Banu Ozkazanc-Pan is Professor of Practice at the School of Engineering and Academic Director of the IE Brown EMBA program. She is also the Founder and Director of the Venture Capital Inclusion Lab at the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship. The Lab was started in 2018 with funds from her $260,000 Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation grant examining the decision-making and network behaviors of VCs. The Lab focuses on understanding and solving funding inequities in the VC industry through data-driven research, education and advocacy. Banu’s research interests are mainly in the areas of diversity and inclusion in organizations and in entrepreneurial ecosystems. Recently, Banu contributed her expertise to 2021 UNGPs10+ consultation on the gender dimensions of business and human rights, which is intended to inform the work of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights’ UNGPs10+ ‘next decade’ project. She also contributed her expertise to 2021 gender dimensions of business and human rights via the Danish Institute for Human Rights. Her piece in The Conversation, focusing on the intersections of gender, inclusion and tech, has over 33,000 reads and offers ideas and steps that are necessary for the tech sector to become inclusive. It was chosen for essential reading in relation to sexual harassment and discrimination in tech, particularly in regards to the Activation Blizzard lawsuit. She is currently a member of CNBC’s Disruptor 50 Advisory Council Member and Academic Director at Brown University for the IE Brown Executive MBA. Banu is currently Joint Editor in Chief of Gender, Work & Organization and the author of Transnational Migration and The New Subjects of Work: Transmigrants, Hybrids and Cosmopolitans. She has two forthcoming books with Cambridge University Press titled Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Critical Gender Perspective (2021) and A Transnational Approach to Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (2022). She can be reached at banu_ozkazanc-pan@brown.edu.
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Pushkala “Pushi” Prasad Pushkala Prasad is the Arthur Zankel Chair Professor of Management & Liberal Arts at Skidmore College where she teaches in the Management & Business and International Affairs Programs. Her past research has focused on workplace resistance, technological change and diversity management. She is currently working in the areas of organizational legitimacy and racial capitalism. She has published widely in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, Organization Science, Organization and the Journal of Management Studies. She is also the author of Crafting Qualitative Research (Routledge) which is now in its second edition and has been translated into Japanese and co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies. She is currently working on a book on racial global capitalism. She also serves on the Nominating Committee of the Nobel Prize in Economics in Sweden. |
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Veronica Rabelo Verónica Rabelo is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Lam Family College of Business at San Francisco State University. They specialize in understanding the antecedents and outcomes of mistreatment and injustice in organizations, as well as interventions for more effective prevention and response. Recently, Verónica served as Director of the Cannabis Workforce Development program in the City of Oakland, California. Verónica received a joint PhD in Psychology and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan and a BA in Psychology with concentrations in Africana Studies and Latin@ Studies from Williams College (Williamstown, MA). |
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Victor Ray Victor Ray is the F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies at the University of Iowa and a Nonresident Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. His research applies critical race theory to classic sociological questions. He is currently working on two book manuscripts: a project focused on race and organizational theory with the University of Chicago Press and public book on critical race theory with Penguin Random House. His work has been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, American Sociological Review, American Behavioral Scientist, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Contexts, Ethnic and Racial Studies, The Journal of Marriage and Family, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and Sociological Theory. His work has won multiple awards, including the early career award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities and the Southern Sociological Society’s Junior Scholar Award. Victor is also an active public scholar, publishing commentary in outlets such as The Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, and Boston Review. Victor’s work has been funded by the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. His first book On Critical Race Theory: Why it Matters & Why You Should Care is forthcoming from Penguin Random House. |
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Baljeet Sandhu Baljeet Sandhu is a UK human rights lawyer, educator and pioneer of the global ‘knowledge equity’ movement. She has designed and developed successful systems-led models of practice in the UK legal, social and investment sectors and is a global thought leader on the value and power of lived experience in social impact work. As a Yale World Fellow, Baljeet supported the development of the Tsai Centre for Innovative Thinking at Yale (CITY), launched in 2017 to serve Yale students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines seeking innovative ways to solve real-world problems. In 2018, she launched the Knowledge Equity Initiative at Yale, a ground-breaking research, education and practice hub exploring the value of both lived and learned experience in systems change, innovation and entrepreneurship. The initiative supported student entrepreneurs and innovators and established cross-disciplinary knowledge exchanges and learning ecosystems to connect local, national and global change-making strategies to understand the value of lived experience in systems practice. Her work also included the design of the Neighbors in Residence Fellowship at Yale, as well as the critical innovation fund. |
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Aliya Saperstein Aliya Saperstein is the Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor in Human Biology and an associate professor of sociology at Stanford University. Her research focuses on the conceptualization and measurement of race/ethnicity and sex/gender in surveys, and the implications of these methodological decisions for studies of social stratification and health disparities. Her co-authored article, “New Categories Are Not Enough: Rethinking the Measurement of Sex and Gender in Social Surveys” and subsequent work on alternative survey measures of gender informed the addition of new self-identification items in the 2018 U.S. General Social Survey. She also recently served as a panel member for the National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine consensus study report on Measuring Sex, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation. Professor Saperstein is a recipient of the Population Association of America's Early Achievement Award and has a Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from the University of California-Berkeley. |
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David Thomas David A. Thomas, Ph.D., president of Morehouse College, is internationally recognized for his expertise in organizational management and higher education leadership. A noted academic scholar, award-winning author, and business consultant for 100 of the Fortune 500 companies, Dr. Thomas has also served as dean of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and on the faculty of Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. At Morehouse, his fundraising leadership has resulted in approximately $190 million, a still-growing total higher than during any other presidential tenure in the history of the college. Under his strategic direction, Morehouse has extended its reach by launching its first online degree programs and has amplified its positioning as a center of intellectual discourse and social engagement in areas such as global leadership, professional equity, social justice, and innovation. He has written or co-written three books and more than 100 scholarly articles, book chapters, cases, and teaching notes. Among other honors, Dr. Thomas is the recipient of Washington Business Journal’s “Minority Business Leader of the Year” award and the National Executive Forum’s Beacon Award and was named one of “Atlanta’s 500 Most Powerful Leaders” by Atlanta Magazine. Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case, co-written by Dr. Thomas, won the 2020 HBR McKinsey Award as the best Harvard Business Review article of the year. He serves on the boards of DTE Energy, Commonfund, Vanguard, and Yale Corporation. He is also a senior advisor for Grain Management. He earned a Ph.D. in organizational behavior studies and a Master of Philosophy in organizational behavior, both from Yale University, along with a Master of Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Administrative Sciences from Yale College. |
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Natasha Warikoo Natasha Warikoo is Professor of Sociology at Tufts University. A former Guggenheim Fellow and high school teacher, Warikoo is an expert on racial and ethnic inequality in education. Her forthcoming book, Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools (University of Chicago Press, April 2022) illuminates tensions related to achievement in a suburban, high-income town with a large and growing Asian American population. An article based on the book’s research was published in American Journal of Sociology and won multiple awards from the American Sociological Association. Warikoo’s most recently published book, The Diversity Bargain: And Other Dilemmas of Race, Admissions, and Meritocracy at Elite Universities (University of Chicago Press, 2016), shows how undergraduates attending Ivy League universities and Oxford University conceptualize race and meritocracy. The book emphasizes the contradictions, moral conundrums, and tensions on campus related to affirmative action and diversity, and how these vary across racial and national lines. The book won multiple awards, including Honorable Mention for the Oliver Cromwell Cox Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Honorable Mention for the Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Book Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems Division on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, and from the American Educational Studies Association. |