JEDI Committee
Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee
Charges:
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Develop plan to assess where WNAR needs to improve EDI
- Propose Indigenous student travel award terms
Upcoming and Past Events
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WNAR 2024 Diversity Workshop, June 9, 2024: This workshop will focus on connecting underrepresented students interested in quantitative areas with professional (bio)statisticians in academia, government, and industry. The target audience includes students in undergraduate universities, community colleges, or tribal colleges, particularly from the Colorado region.
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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 | 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 | 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 | 2024-26 | Hua Shen | Associate Professor, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Calgary |