JEDI Committee

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee

Charges:

  • Develop plan to assess where WNAR needs to improve JEDI efforts

  • Coordinate Indigenous student travel awards
  • Continue establishing the Diversity Workshop 

Upcoming Events

  • None at this time.


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
  • WNAR 2024 Session "Everything They Never Told You: The Graduate School Experience", June 10, 2024. Organizer: Prince Allotey


  • WNAR 2022 Meeting Session and Roundtable "The alternative hypothesis: Underrepresented (bio)statisticians share graduate school experiences", June 13, 2022

    • 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
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 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

MEMBER, 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
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