Women Also Know Stuff presentation and Q&A with Dr. Nadia E. Brown

Women Also Know Stuff (WAKS) works to highlight the expertise of women and thus push back against implicit gender bias. The organization aims to connect expert women in political science with professional networking opportunities, while also making it easy for those seeking experts, including journalists, to find women experts in any given subfield of political science.

This workshop details what WAKS did and is doing to increase gender diversity in political science. This talk will highlight ways that our organizational efforts can be duplicated by other organizations – learning from our successes and challenges.

Dr. Nadia E. Brown, is a professor of Government, chair of the Women’s and Gender Studies program and affiliate in the African American Studies program at Georgetown University. She specializes in Black women’s politics and holds a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies. While trained as a political scientist, her scholarship on intersectionality seeks to push beyond disciplinary constraints to think more holistically about the politics of identity. Brown serves on the WAKS executive committee.

While WAKS focuses on women scholars in political science, there are a number of sites dedicated to promoting women across fields and around the world – many which are inspired by the initiative of WAKS. You can find a running list of these organizations on their website.

This event is part of the year-long Cross-Institutional Caucus Series, hosted by the four institutions engaged in the NSF ADVANCE Midwest Partnership – Joining Forces grant. The series, taking place in 2021-22, highlights gender inequities in STEM workplaces, and suggest institutional strategies to counter these inequities.

Webinar presentation and Q&A

Thursday, October 7

7 p.m. EDT - Welcome
7:05 p.m. EDT - Presentation and Q&A with Dr. Nadia Brown

NSF ADVANCE Midwest Partnership - Joining Forces

The ADVANCE Midwest Partnership - Joining Forces is a cross-institutional effort of these four research-intensive, doctoral-granting public universities funded by the NSF ADVANCE program to promote increased equity, diversity, and faculty retention and career advancement of faculty in science, technology, engineering or mathematics.