JEDI Committee
Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee
Charges:
- Develop an inaugural demographic survey for WNAR members (see survey disclaimers)
- Coordinate Indigenous student travel awards
- Continue hosting a satellite workshop in conjunction with the WNAR meeting for students
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Develop plan to assess where WNAR needs to improve JEDI efforts
Upcoming Events
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WNAR 2026 Workshop, June 2026. Information will be added when available.
Past Events
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WNAR 2025 Expanding Opportunities Workshop, June 15-16, 2025. This workshop focused on connect undergraduate students interested in quantitative fields with professional (bio)statisticians and data scientists in academia, government, and industry. Students from historically underrepresented groups were especially encouraged to apply. This workshop was funded in part by CANSSI with support from NSERC.
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WNAR 2025 Contributed Session "Student Experiences Navigating Graduate School". June 16, 2025. Organizers: Natalie Gasca and Austin Ellingworth.
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WNAR 2025 Invited Session "Empowering International Students: Insights from Early-Career Professionals". June 17, 2025. Organizer: Natalie Gasca
- 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. This workshop was funded in part by CURE Epilepsy and SAS.
- 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 | 2021-25 | 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, 2024-25 | Maricela Cruz | Affiliate Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of Washington |
| FOUNDING MEMBER | 2021-25 | Audrey Hendricks |
Associate Professor, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences/ Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado, Denver |
| CHAIR, MEMBER | 2022-25 | Natalie Gasca |
Senior Environmental Scientist, California Department of Pesticide Regulation |
| 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 |
| MEMBER | 2025-27 | Laura (Lala) Kaizer | Senior Research Scientist, Colorado School of Public Health |