JEDI Committee
Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee
Charges:
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Develop plan to assess where WNAR needs to improve JEDI efforts
- Develop an inaugural demographic survey for WNAR members (see survey disclaimers)
- Coordinate Indigenous student travel awards
- Continue establishing the Diversity Workshop
Upcoming Events
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WNAR 2025 Expanding Opportunities Workshop, June 15-16, 2025. This workshop will connect undergraduate, community college, and tribal college students interested in quantitative fields with professional (bio)statisticians and data scientists in academia, government, and industry. Application information coming soon.
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WNAR 2025 Session "Empowering International Students: Insights from Early-Career Professionals". Additional information coming soon.
Past Events
- WNAR 2024 Diversity Workshop, June 9, 2024: This workshop focused on connecting underrepresented students interested in quantitative areas with professional (bio)statisticians in academia, government, and industry. The target audience included undergraduate and graduate students from historically underrepresented groups.
- WNAR 2024 Session "Career Possibilities Panel: Perspectives from Early Career Professionals", June 10, 2024. Organizer: Natalie Gasca
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WNAR 2024 Session "Everything They Never Told You: The Graduate School Experience", June 10, 2024. Organizer: Prince Allotey
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WNAR 2022 Meeting Session and Roundtable "The alternative hypothesis: Underrepresented (bio)statisticians share graduate school experiences", June 13, 2022
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- Organizer & Chair: Natalie Gasca, California Council on Science and Technology
- Panelists:
- Maricela Cruz, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
- Aaron Hudson, University of California, Berkeley
- Amarise Little, University of Washington
- Kyle Conniff, University of California, Irvine
JEDI Committee Members
| OFFICE | YEAR(S) | OFFICER | AFFILIATION |
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| FOUNDING CHAIR | 2021-24 | Nairanjana (Jan) Dasgupta | Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, Washington State University |
| FOUNDING MEMBER | 2021-24 | Sonia Jain |
Professor, Public Health Education, University of California, San Diego |
| FOUNDING MEMBER | 2021-23 | Brian Williamson |
Assistant Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute |
| FOUNDING MEMBER | 2021-22, 2024 | Maricela Cruz | Affiliate Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of Washington |
| FOUNDING MEMBER | 2021-24 | Audrey Hendricks |
Associate Professor, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences/ Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado, Denver |
| CHAIR | 2022-25 | Natalie Gasca |
Science Policy Fellow, California Council on Science and Technology |
| MEMBER | 2023-25 | Elizabeth Juarez-Colunga | Associate Professor, Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus |
| MEMBER | 2023-25 | Prince Allotey | Assistant Teaching Professor, Statistics, University of Washington |
| MEMBER | 2024-26 | Hua Shen | Associate Professor, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Calgary |
| MEMBER | 2024-26 | Lisa Kanary | Assistant Professor, Business Administration, Yukon University |