MAURA ALLEN has led Segesta Communications for more than twenty years, providing market strategy, client engagement initiatives, and C-suite content to top investment, venture, consulting, and nonprofit organizations. She has worked with the Toigo Foundation for more than fifteen years, providing strategic program development, market strategy support, and content for thought leadership initiatives. Maura believes in the power of story as a way to connect and communicate and advises organizations on ways to leverage their unique narratives in order to deepen client relationships. Her client roster includes JPMorgan Chase, Khosla Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Charles Schwab & Co., Stanford University, University of California–San Francisco, Saint Mary’s College, Ernst & Young, and more. A Telly Award winner, Maura holds a BA in classical studies and Latin from Stanford University. After authoring Write Now: Essential Tips for Standout College Essays, she was selected as a Khan Academy coach, providing a powerful platform for the Bay Area native to share creative writing advice with thousands of rising high school seniors worldwide as they apply to college and embark on their careers.

ELLA L. J. EDMONDSON BELL is a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. She is also an author, managerial consultant, nationally recognized researcher, and advocate on women’s workplace issues. She is the coauthor of Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity. Her second book is Career GPS. As a nationally respected managerial consultant, Ella has shared her expertise and knowledge on discriminatory barriers in the workplace, strategic leadership, managing inclusion, and work-life balance with corporate leaders across the country. Ella’s scholarly work has been reported in the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the Charlotte Business Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, Working Women, Business Week, Black Enterprise, and Essence. She is considered by industry and the academy to be one of the leading experts in organizational change and the management of race, gender, and class in organizational life. In addition, Ella appeared on CNN’s Democracy in America ’96 as a nationally recognized expert of race relations in the workplace.

DIANE FORBES BERTHOUD is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of California, San Diego, where her responsibilities include strategic planning, advancing institutional effectiveness, serving as liaison to human resources, and leading diversity-focused and campus-wide initiatives. She is affiliate faculty of the George Washington School of International Affairs in Leadership Studies and faculty emeritus for the RISE San Diego Urban Leadership Program, which trains and empowers urban leaders to take effective and sustainable action to transform San Diego’s urban communities. Diane’s research on gendered, raced, intersectional processes of organizing has been published in Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of Applied Communication Research, and the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. She has presented her work on black women’s leadership, intersectionality, and organizational discourse at national and international conferences, most notably the 2016 International Fulbright Conference. One of her recent works (2017) appears in the International Leadership Association’s book series, Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice. Diane earned her BA in Communication and a certificate in Spanish translation and interpretation from Barry University in Florida and her MA and PhD in organizational communication and social psychology from Howard University.

STACY BLAKE-BEARD is the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor of Women and Leadership at the Simmons University School of Business. She is also faculty affiliate at the Center for Gender in Organizations at Simmons and visiting faculty at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India. Before joining Simmons, Stacy was a member of the faculty of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. She has also worked in sales and marketing at Procter & Gamble and in the corporate human resources department at Xerox. Stacy holds a BS in psychology from the University of Maryland at College Park and an MA and PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan. Her research is on the challenges and opportunities offered by mentoring relationships, with a focus on the impact of increasing workforce diversity. She has published research on gender, diversity, and mentoring in several publications, including the Academy of Management Executive, the Academy of Management Learning and Education, and the Psychology of Women Quarterly.

ARTHUR P. BRIEF is the George S. Eccles Chair in Business Ethics and Presidential Professor, Emeritus at the University of Utah. His research focuses on the moral dimensions of organizational life (e.g., ethical decision making, race relations, and worker well-being). In addition to having published more than a hundred journal articles, Art is author or editor of several books, including Attitudes In and Around Organizations (1998) and Diversity at Work (2008). He is a past editor of the Academy of Management Review and cofounding editor of the Academy of Management Annals. Art now coedits Research in Organizational Behavior. He is a fellow of the Academy of Management, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Psychological Association. Art has been a Fulbright Fellow in Lisbon, a Batten Fellow at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia, and the Thomas S. Murphy Distinguished Research Professor at the Harvard Business School. His research has been reported on by ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN’s Headline News, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and various other news outlets.

ANNA-MARIA BROOMES is an English-as-a-second-language teacher and master of counseling student in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. Her main research interests focus on the integration of multicultural counseling competencies with diverse theoretical approaches in counseling settings. She is currently conducting research on authenticity and facades of conformity in work environments. Anna-Maria holds a BA in psychology from McGill University, where she led and facilitated interactive seminars in organizational behavior.

B. LINDSAY BROWN is a doctoral candidate in the industrial-organizational psychology program at the University of Georgia. She has published several book chapters and presented research on workplace discrimination, diversity management practices, and underrepresented workers in both practitioner and academic outlets. Lindsay is currently a doctoral fellow in the J. W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development at the University of Georgia, where she provides consultation and evaluation services for nonprofits and community groups, including Goodwill of North Georgia, Athens Land Trust, Advantage Behavioral Health Services, and the Athens-Clarke County Police Department.

TONI CORNELIUS is President of TamarindTree Consulting, a firm that assists individuals and organizations to move “beyond the numbers” of traditional diversity initiatives to a focus on developing sustainably inclusive work environments. With more than thirty years in the field of corporate human resources and organizational development, Toni has driven both traditional human resource functions and the development and implementation of strategies that promote an inclusive workplace. Toni introduces stylized approaches through a variety of methods, including workshops and panel facilitation, leadership assessment and development training, needs analysis, and program development to guide clients to their “best fit” approach. Toni holds a BA from Creighton University and an MS in industrial relations from Loyola University. She is a certified instructor of the Hogan Level I Leadership Assessment Program and the Hay Group Emotional and Social Competency Inventory, as well as a qualified instructor of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Toni currently works with the Toigo Foundation on the expansion of the foundation’s APEx leadership curriculum.

STEPHANIE CREARY is an Assistant Professor of Management in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is also an affiliated faculty member of Wharton People Analytics and a senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. Her research program is motivated by understanding how multiple identities, perspectives, and experiences are managed in organizations to promote learning and growth. She investigates how individuals and groups minimize the conflict that can ensue when their differences become more salient; how they navigate pressures to conceal, reveal, or downplay valued aspects of themselves at work; and the organizational features and relationship qualities that enable and constrain these dynamics. Previously, Stephanie was a research associate at Harvard Business School and the Conference Board. She has also worked in the health-care industry. Stephanie has earned BS and MS degrees from the Boston University Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences; an MBA degree from Simmons School of Management; and MS and PhD degrees from the Boston College Carroll School of Management.

MARTIN N. DAVIDSON is the Johnson and Higgins Professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He currently serves as Senior Associate Dean and Global Chief Diversity Officer for the school. His thought leadership has changed how global leaders approach inclusion and diversity in their organizations. His scholarly research appears in top academic and practitioner publications and his book, The End of Diversity as We Know It: Why Diversity Efforts Fail and How Leveraging Difference Can Succeed, introduces a research-driven road map to help leaders effectively create and capitalize on diversity in their organizations. Martin teaches leadership in Darden’s MBA and Executive Education programs and consults with numerous Fortune 500 firms, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations, including Bank of America, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the US Navy SEALs. He has been featured in many media outlets, including the New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the Wall Street Journal. He served on the faculty of the Tuck School at Dartmouth College before joining the Darden faculty in 1998. He earned his AB at Harvard College and his PhD at Stanford University.

TAWANA DAVIS, a lifetime member of the NAACP and a retired itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, is a cofounder/consultant of Soul 2 Soul, a black Woman–led, faith-based racial justice nonprofit organization. Tawana has a bachelor of science degree in human resources management from the State University of New York Empire State College, a master of divinity from Interdenominational Theological Center (Turner Theological Seminary), project management certificate from New York University, and human resource professional certification from Cornell University, and she is currently pursuing her PhD at Antioch University’s Graduate School of Leadership and Change (her expected graduation date is 2020). Tawana has held leadership positions in corporations, churches, and the community. She serves on several boards, including the Institute for Racial Equity and Excellence, the Stomp Out Breast Cancer Foundation, and the Interfaith Alliance of Colorado. She is currently in active treatment for HER2+ metastatic breast cancer, a mother of two educators, and a grandmother.

BEVERLY EDGEHILL is an accomplished organizational development (OD) professional who guides leaders and their teams in managing complex and large-scale change to support existing and emerging business priorities. For the past twenty-five years, Beverly has enjoyed working inside retail and financial services companies, and in the position of President and CEO of the Partnership, Inc., a Massachusetts-based leadership development organization. Beverly, also a former regional selection panelist for the White House Fellows program, completed her doctoral studies at Teachers College, Columbia University and teaches graduate level courses in leadership, OD, and change management. She is a sought-after speaker at conferences and workshops and has published several articles on the topic of career success.

BRYON FONG is the Research Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. He manages the center’s institutional research activities, including its flagship Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies project, research on lawyer career paths, and initiatives on innovation in the legal profession. He is also the managing editor of the center’s digital magazine, The Practice. Since 2016, he has served as a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School, teaching the Legal Profession Seminar with Professor David B. Wilkins. His publications on the legal profession include The Women and Men of Harvard Law School: Preliminary Results from the HLS Career Study (with David B. Wilkins and Ronit Dinovitzer), Mapping India’s Corporate Law Firms (with David B. Wilkins and Ashish Nanda), and The Harvard Law School Report on the State of Black Alumni II: 2000–2016 (with David B. Wilkins). Bryon earned his BA from Georgetown University and his MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

KATHRYN FRASER is a licensed psychologist and behavioral medicine coordinator in the Halifax Health Family Medicine Residency Program in Daytona Beach, Florida. For the past twenty-four years, she has been teaching, consulting, and doing research in various areas in behavioral health and physician professional development. She is the Director of the Behavioral Science/Family Systems Educator Fellowship, a nationwide mentoring program for early-career behavioral medicine faculty. She is a founding member and Vice President of Community Outreach for Prevention of Eating Disorders, a grassroots, nonprofit organization dedicated to informing the public about eating disorders and positive body image. She spearheaded the cultural competency and health disparities curriculum in her residency program and has presented regionally and nationally on these topics. In collaboration with several members of the Minority and Multicultural Health Collaborative of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, she published an article in the Journal of Family Medicine based on their 2016 STFM Annual Conference workshop on teaching about racism in health care.

HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An Emmy Award–winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Henry has authored or coauthored twenty-one books and created fifteen documentary films, including Black in Latin America, Black America since MLK: And Still I Rise, Africa’s Great Civilizations, Reconstruction: America after the Civil War, and Finding Your Roots, his groundbreaking genealogy series now in its third season on PBS. His six-part PBS documentary series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013), which he wrote, executive produced, and hosted, earned the Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program—Long Form, as well as the Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, and NAACP Image Award. Having written for such leading publications as the New Yorker, the New York Times, and Time, Henry now serves as Chairman of TheRoot.com, a daily online magazine he cofounded in 2008, while overseeing the Oxford African American Studies Center, the first comprehensive scholarly online resource in the field. The recipient of fifty-five honorary degrees and numerous prizes, he earned his BA in English language and literature, summa cum laude, from Yale University in 1973 and his MA and PhD in English literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge in 1979.

SAKSHI GHAI is a research coordinator at the Wharton People Analytics of the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, she worked as a research assistant at the Wharton School and the School of Arts and Sciences at Penn. She has also worked as an advertising executive at Ogilvy & Mather and as a program lead at Vedica Scholars, a unique women-only management program in India. Sakshi earned her BA (Hons) in philosophy from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University, and her MS in behavioral and decision sciences from the University of Pennsylvania. She also pursued the Young India Fellowship from Ashoka University.

ZACHARY GREEN is a Professor of Practice in Leadership Studies at the University of San Diego and lead faculty for the RISE Urban Leadership Fellows Program. A clinical psychologist by training, Zachary teaches courses on human development, organizational behavior, dialogue, negotiations, mindfulness, and love. As a practitioner, Zachary’s clients include multinational corporations, government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, universities, religious institutions, and nonprofits. He has coached top leaders at the World Bank for the better part of two decades. His most recent venture, through IMAGO Global Grassroots, involves a cocreative model of international development in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and South America. Zachary frequently offers training on integral and unconscious psychological dimensions of leadership and conducts consultations with organizations on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Zachary received a doctorate in clinical psychology from Boston University and completed advanced clinical training at Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Georgetown University. He began his career as an associate of the Wharton Center for Applied Leadership.

PATRICIA FAISON HEWLIN is an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs at the Desautels Faculty of Management, at McGill University. She conducts research on how organization members and leaders engage in authentic expression, as well as factors that impede authenticity in everyday work interactions. Her research has centered on employee silence and the degree to which members suppress personal values and pretend to embrace those of the organization, a behavior she terms “creating facades of conformity.” Patricia’s research also includes gaining insight on how members make sense of and cope with organizational value breaches in values-driven organizations. She received her BA in English rhetoric and literature, and Spanish language and literature from Binghamton University. She holds an MBA in finance and a PhD in organizational behavior from the Stern School of Business, New York University. She is published in leading academic journals and her work has been featured in several media outlets including Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post, The Times (UK), and Globe and Mail.

ELIZABETH L. HOLLOWAY is a Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of Leadership and Change at Antioch University. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology. She has over thirty-five years of experience as an educator, researcher, and international consultant in clinical supervision, relational practice, and respectful cultures in higher education and health-care organizations. She also serves on the faculty of the American College of Healthcare Executives conducting workshops on the impact of toxic behaviors on organizational culture. Her most recent publications are in qualitative methodologies for inclusion and diversity research, and relational practice in teaching and learning in graduate education. Her most recent books are Essentials of Supervision for a Systems Approach to Supervision and Toxic Workplace! Managing Toxic Personalities and Their Systems of Power. She received her PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, MA in counseling at University of California, Santa Barbara, and her Honors Psychology BA from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

ERIKA HAYES JAMES is the John H. Harland Dean of Goizueta Business School at Emory University. An award winning scholar, she had published numerous academic articles in such journals as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal and Journal of Applied Psychology. Her scholarship has been featured in media outlets including Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and NPR. She is coauthor of the book Leading under Pressure: From Surviving to Thriving Before, During and After a Crisis. In addition to her scholarship, Erika is a passionate educator and consultant with expertise in diversity and inclusion and crisis leadership. Before joining Goizueta, she served as the Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business, and was an assistant professor at Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business and a visiting professor at Harvard Business School. Erika is active in the community serving on several nonprofit boards and as a member of the Board of Directors for SurveyMonkey. She received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Pomona College and her PhD from the University of Michigan.

RAY JONES teaches introductory undergraduate courses in business ethics and organizational behavior, as well as advanced undergraduate courses in gender and diversity in management and governance at the University of Pittsburgh. In the MBA program, he teaches the required organizational behavior core course. For the past several years, he has served as coordinator of the Certificate Program in Leadership and Ethics, in which more than sixty undergraduate students work toward the completion of the certificate as an enhancement of their undergraduate major. In addition to teaching, he plays a variety of advisory roles in a number of different student activities and pursuits in the College of Business Administration.

SERENITY LEE is a research associate at Harvard Business School. She is interested in the interpersonal and organizational factors that cultivate workplaces in which all employees, including those with marginalized identities, have the capacity to thrive. Serenity received her BA (Honors) in psychology from the University of Michigan.

MICHELLE SMITH MACCHIA is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education. As a PK–12 education practitioner, Michelle helps preservice teachers improve their pedagogical practice, which, in turn, improves learning outcomes for students. She codesigned the Early Reading Matters program, an inquiry-based professional development initiative for elementary teachers. Her research interrogates systemic inequities influenced by policy and educator mindset within traditional, public school systems in the United States. She earned her doctorate in teacher leadership from Rutgers University; her master’s degree in educational administration from Teachers College, Columbia University; and her bachelor’s degree in French and linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

ELLYN MAESE, MA, is a research analyst with Gallup’s Workplace Analytics and Research team. She conducts both quantitative and quantitative research related to organizational policies and employee experience, providing empirical evidence to guide Gallup’s data-driven advice and practices. As a doctoral candidate of developmental psychology at University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO), Ellyn specializes in statistical and methodological issues related to the cross-cultural study of social development, with expertise in psychometrics, structural equation modeling, and multilevel analysis. She has also served as an adjunct instructor at UNO, where she taught courses in psychological research methods and statistics; provided consultation on research methodology and statistics for faculty in the UNO College of Business Administration, at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, at Fudan University, and at Universidade Federal do Parana; and served as managing editor for the Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies.

COURTNEY L. MCCLUNEY is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Darden School of Business and Academic Strategic Partnerships for Interprofessional Research and Education in the School of Nursing at the University of Virginia. She received her PhD in psychology (personality and social contexts) at the University of Michigan and BA in psychology and interpersonal/organizational communication from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. Courtney investigates how marginalized employees are surviving and thriving at work, and the organizational structures and processes that create these conditions. She primarily centers black women’s workplace experiences and uses interdisciplinary frameworks to examine how they cultivate resources to navigate inequities in organizations. Her most recent work, which was funded by the Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Virginia, explores black women’s entrepreneurship in resource-constrained environments. For more information about her research, visit www.CourtneyLMcCluney.com.

SHANE MCFEELY, PhD, is an organizational researcher at Gallup. He conducts research and consults with clients on topics most important to human capital management with the goal of making the workplace more productive, more positive, and, ultimately, more profitable. Among other workplace topics, Shane has expertise in the areas of program evaluation, employee selection, workplace effectiveness, research methodology, data visualization, and advanced analytics. Before joining Gallup, Shane was an administrator for the Omaha Public Schools’ Research Division, where he implemented research methodology to evaluate the effectiveness of programs and other educational initiatives in the largest school district in Nebraska, serving over fifty-two thousand students. He analyzed district performance and program data, evaluated the effectiveness of teacher professional development, aided in the strategic planning process, and managed the district’s 360-degree principal evaluation system.

AUDREY MURRELL is currently Associate Dean of the College of Business Administration and Associate Professor of Business Administration at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Business. She received her BS from Howard University and PhD from the University of Delaware. Audrey conducts research on mentoring, careers in organizations, workplace and supplier diversity, and social issues in management. Her work has been published widely in management and psychology journals, as well as in several books: Mentoring Dilemmas: Developmental Relationships within Multicultural Organizations (with Crosby and Ely), Intelligent Mentoring: How IBM Creates Value through People, Knowledge and Relationships (with Forte-Trummel and Bing), and her recent book entitled Mentoring Diverse Leaders: Creating Change for People, Processes and Paradigms (with Blake-Beard). Audrey frequently serves as a consultant in the areas of mentoring, leadership development, and workforce and supplier diversity. She teaches courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive education levels in the areas of organizational behavior, leadership, ethics, and cross-cultural management. Her community service activities include having served on and chaired a number of nonprofit and community boards.

STELLA M. NKOMO is currently a Strategic Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is a former scholar-in-residence at the Bunting Institute of Harvard University and a visiting scholar at the Tuck Business School of Dartmouth College. Her internationally acclaimed research on race and gender in organizations, leadership, and managing diversity and management in Africa has been published in numerous journals and books. She is coauthor of the critically acclaimed Harvard Business School Press book Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity. Stella serves on the editorial board of several management journals and is currently coeditor of a special issue of the Academy of Management Review focused on diversity in the workplace. She is the recipient of several honors, including the 2009 Academy of Management Gender and Diversity in Organizations Award for Scholarly Contributions. Most recently, she received the International Leadership Association 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award.

JENNIFER PETRIE is a postdoctoral fellow at the David Berg Center for Ethics and Leadership at the University of Pittsburgh’s College of Business of Administration. She received her EdD from Ohio University in 2015. At the University of Pittsburgh, she researches global competency, service learning, ethics education, and African education policy. In Ghana, Jennifer’s current project focuses on improving policy, outcomes, and resources for senior high school education. Jennifer has also performed dance as a member of Azaguno, a multicultural African performing arts ensemble, for the past eight years.

SHANNON POLK is the principal consultant for Leadership Solutions, LLC. She recently completed a doctor of ministry degree at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary at Evangel University, where her research focused on racial and ethnic clergywomen ministering in predominantly white denominations. She is a graduate of Western Michigan University’s Cooley Law School (JD) and Michigan State University (BA).

KISHA PORCHER is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice at Rutgers University, Graduate School of Education. She also serves as a senior educational consultant at Teaching Matters, Inc. in New York City, and is the cofounder of Equity Consulting Group. As a consultant, she coaches in the areas of race, social justice, culturally responsive pedagogy, literacy, assessment, and teacher leadership. She was an Advanced Placement English Language Arts, College Summit, and International Baccalaureate educator in Prince George’s County for four years. She also served as the International Baccalaureate Coordinator in Prince George’s County for two years. She obtained her bachelor of arts degree in English and secondary education from Spelman College; her master of arts in curriculum and instruction from Teachers College, Columbia University; and her doctorate of education in teaching and teacher education, with a specialization in education policy. Her professional interests include urban teacher preparation, curriculum design, urban education research, education policy, and instructional strategies.

LAURA PROVOLT is a doctoral candidate in the University of Georgia’s industrial-organizational program and is currently working to complete her dissertation. Her dissertation research addresses the role of informal social networks as a mechanism of systematic hiring discrepancies among mothers reentering the workplace. Her master’s research addressed the cognitive awareness and intentional control of unconscious racial and gender bias in the context of applicant evaluation. Other current research projects include an examination of the ideologies regarding diversity in science, engineering, technology, and mathematics fields. Before coming to the University of Georgia, Laura earned bachelors degrees in psychology and business administration and finance at Humboldt State University, California.

VALERIE PURDIE-GREENAWAY is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. Valerie has authored numerous publications that have appeared in journals such as Science, Psychological Science, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. She has been awarded grants from the National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, Spencer Foundation and William T. Grant Foundation. In 2013, Valerie was awarded the Columbia University RISE (Research Initiative in Science and Engineering) award for most innovative and cutting-edge research proposal for her proposal titled, “ ‘Cells to Society’ Approach to Reducing Racial Achievement Gaps: Neuro-physiologic Pathways Involved in Stereotype Threat and Social Psychological Interventions.” Previously, Valerie served on the faculty of Yale University. She completed her doctoral work in psychology at Stanford University in 2004 as a student of Claude Steele.

VERÓNICA CARIDAD RABELO (she/her/hers; they/them/their) is an Assistant Professor of Management in the College of Business at San Francisco State University. She received a PhD in psychology (gender and feminist psychology) and women’s studies from the University of Michigan and a BA in psychology (with concentrations in Latin@ studies and Africana studies) from Williams College (Williamstown, MA). Her research examines how dignity, health, and mistreatment in the workplace are shaped by race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and social class. She researches these topics from the perspectives of people who are underrepresented or silenced in research. She also researches strategies to make teaching, research methods, and workplace environments more inclusive and accessible. Her honors include a Student Scholar Latina Award from the American Psychological Association and the inaugural Diversity Research Award from the University of Michigan’s Department of Psychology. For more about her research, teaching, and consulting, visit www.VeronicaRabelo.com.

LAKSHMI RAMARAJAN is the Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research examines how people can work fruitfully across social divides, with a particular emphasis on identities and group boundaries. Her research addresses two broad questions: (1) How does the work environment shape people’s experiences as members of particular groups and of their multiple identity groups? (2) What are the consequences of multiple identities and group differences in organizations? She investigates professional and work identities alongside other identities that are important to people, such as those pertaining to ethnicity, community, and family. She examines consequences in areas such as employee engagement and commitment to work, career success and satisfaction, quality of interpersonal and intergroup relations, and performance. Lakshmi earned her BA (Honors) in international relations from Wellesley College, her MSc in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and her PhD in management from the Wharton School of Business.

ASPEN J. ROBINSON is a doctoral candidate in the Industrial and Organizational Psychology Doctoral Program at the University of Georgia. Her research interests include workplace discrimination, the experiences of people of color at work, and the impact of organizational diversity messages on individual outcomes. Aspen has published an article about black lives in organizations and has coauthored a book chapter focused on diversifying STEM. She also has presented research on sexual minority employees’ diversity climate perceptions, diversity ideologies in organizations, and on the relationship between gender and leadership self-efficacy. Aspen is currently an intern on the Workforce Analytics team at Johnson & Johnson. Aspen received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia and a master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

KAREN SAMUELS is a licensed psychologist in Ormond Beach, Florida. Her career has been dedicated to empowering women and other forgotten populations through her community involvement, psychotherapy practice, and lectures and consultation. She is the founder and President of COPE: Community Outreach to Prevent Eating Disorders, a nonprofit since 2001. She is a consultant to the Halifax Health Family Medicine Residency Program, training physicians in interprofessional treatment teams. She is also an affiliate and key contributor to the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, Wellesley Centers for Women. Utilizing relational cultural theory, she spearheaded media literacy programs for middle schools in two entire school districts, as well as conducted eating disorder groups with midlife women. She has published widely, highlighting eating disorders and related health concerns in midlife and beyond. She serves as the resident psychologist and body image specialist, promoting size acceptance and diversity with online videos and blogs, on the wellness platform OneOEight.com. Karen received the 2014 National Eating Disorders Association Westin Family Award for Activism and Advocacy in recognition of her community and social justice work.

LUMUMBA SEEGARS is a doctoral student in organizational behavior, a joint program with Harvard Business School and the Department of Psychology. He studies how individuals’ values and identities affect how they experience, enact, and react to changes in organizations meant to address inequality. He has work experience in education, the performing arts, political campaigns, and ministry. Lumumba completed his undergraduate studies in social studies at Harvard College.

MURIEL E. SHOCKLEY is the Director of the Undergraduate Studies Program at Goddard College. She has over twenty-five years of experience as a faculty member and administrator in colleges and universities. Her work centers on the impact of intersectional identities on individuals, communities, and systems. Muriel has deep experience working with community collaborations that address issues of service and access to diverse populations and as a consultant and researcher supporting progressive organizations in program design, implementation, evaluation, and training.

NANCY SIMS is President and CEO of the Toigo Foundation, a national leadership program supporting underrepresented professionals within finance throughout the arc of their careers. Nancy brings nearly thirty years of service in the financial services industry to her leadership of the nonprofit, offering solutions-based engagement with organizations through programming and collaboration. Her entrepreneurial leadership style has advanced Toigo’s work from a small, grassroots organization to a high-impact partner extending its reach today to a broad mix of industries from technology and media to government. During Nancy’s twenty-year Toigo tenure, the organization has become a staunch advocate for diversity, including coverage in business and industry publications, thought leadership, and speaking engagements. In 2008, Nancy testified before the US House Financial Services Oversight Committee, reporting findings from the foundation’s Retention Returns Survey that highlighted the viewpoints of diverse professionals on inclusion practices within their employer organizations. In 2016, her leadership in stewarding the challenges of the financial crisis of 2008 was chronicled in the Case Research Journal and is now a case study available for use in MBA and executive education classrooms.

FLORA TAYLOR is an organizational development consultant, executive coach, educator, and group dynamics specialist. Her practice areas include team development, meeting effectiveness, and large and small group facilitation. Flora passionately advocates for the benefits of experiential learning. She has designed, directed, and staffed many experiential conferences, simulations, and retreats for executives on the dynamics of organizational life using social systems (Power Lab), and group relations methodologies. Flora has worked for associations including the Center for Applied Research and Praxis, both boutique consulting firms specializing in psychodynamic approaches to organizational development. Flora brings significant teaching experience to bear in the areas of leadership, power authority, and group development, including engagements at the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, Teachers College of Columbia University, and Ashoka University (Haryana, India). Flora earned her AB cum laude from Harvard University and her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a fellow of the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Group Relations and a licensed psychologist.

KECIA THOMAS is a Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the University of Georgia and the founding Director of the Center for Research and Engagement in Diversity. Kecia currently serves as the Senior Associate Dean in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia. Kecia is an expert in the psychology of workplace diversity. Her scholarship and institutional engagements focus on the issues of strategic diversity recruitment; supporting diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workplaces; and understanding the career experiences of high-potential women of color. She is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, as well as the textbook Diversity Dynamics in the Workplace; editor, Diversity Resistance in the Workplace; and coeditor, Diversity Ideologies in Organizations, as well as of special “workplace diversity” journal issues. She is an elected fellow of both the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the American Psychological Association, and a recipient of the Janet Chusmir Award for Distinguished Service from the Gender and Diversity in Organizations division of the Academy of Management.

SUE TOIGO, through Fitzgibbon Toigo & Co, provides access for emerging investment managers to the global institutional investment community. A principal in Goldmine Consulting, she provides career and business research and advice to minority investment professionals. Sue cofounded the Institute for Fiduciary Education in 1985 to provide investment education through global seminars for over three thousand fund sponsors and consultants. Sue spent sixteen years as the lobbyist for the California Children’s Lobby and fourteen years on the Columbia Business School Board of Overseers. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at universities in Texas, Nebraska, and Indiana, and she has spoken for the US State Department in Australia, New Zealand, Syria, and Chile. In 1989, she and her late husband, Bob Toigo, founded the Toigo Foundation to support minority MBA students pursuing careers in finance. She is in the Berkeley Women’s Hall of Fame for founding child care centers at University of California, Berkeley.

ELLA F. WASHINGTON is an organizational psychologist providing subject matter expertise in leadership, diversity, and inclusion. Her research and client work focus on women in the workplace, barriers to inclusion for diverse groups, and working with organizations to build inclusive cultures. Ella has conducted inclusiveness audits, learning workshops, and strategic planning sessions with clients in order to support their goals of building a more diverse and inclusive workplace. She has partnered with Gallup clients across the retail, manufacturing, banking, higher education, technology, government, and nonprofit industries. Before joining Gallup, Ella was a talent management consultant at Ernst & Young. Earlier, she worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago as a diversity and inclusion consultant. She has extensive teaching experience in business schools in the area of organizational behavior. She earned her PhD in organizational behavior from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She was a Phi Beta Kappa scholar at Spelman College, where she graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in psychology.

DAVID B. WILKINS is the Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, and Faculty Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School. He is also a senior research fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a faculty associate of the Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. David has given over sixty endowed lectures at universities around the world and is a frequent speaker at professional conferences and law firm and corporate retreats. He is the author of over eighty articles on the legal profession in leading scholarly journals, as well as a coeditor of several books, including Diversity in Practice (2016), The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization (2017), The Brazilian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization (2018), and The Chinese Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization (forthcoming 2019). He is a coauthor of Problems in Professional Responsibility for a Changing Profession (6th edition 2016), one of the leading casebooks in the field. David was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012 and the Spanish Royal Academy of Doctors in 2014 and most recently was the recipient of the Harvard Law School Association Award in 2016. His major research interests include the legal profession, legal ethics, diversity, and globalization.

WHITNEY WILLIAMS is the Senior Project Manager in Faculty Development at the University of Michigan Medical School where she is responsible for the oversight and execution of facilitating the advancement and development of early-career and women leaders; fostering impactful and influential relationships through mentoring, coaching, and sponsorship; and creating positive cultures. She also serves as the Board President at the Women’s Center of Southeastern Michigan, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the economic and emotional self-determination of women and families. She received her MSW, with particular interest in maternal and infant mental health, and a Bachelor’s of Science in neuropsychology with a minor in women and gender studies from the University of Michigan. She is currently pursuing her graduate studies in organizational development from Eastern Michigan University.

ADIA HARVEY WINGFIELD is Professor of Sociology at Washington University in Saint Louis. Her research examines racial and gender inequality in professional occupations and has been published in Social Problems, Gender & Society, and other leading peer-reviewed sociology journals. She is the author of several books, most recently, Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy. Adia has served as President of Sociologists for Women in Society and is a regular contributor to Slate, the Atlantic, Fortune, and Harvard Business Review. She is also the 2018 recipient of the American Sociological Association’s Public Understanding of Sociology award, which honors exemplary contributions to advancing sociological research and scholarship among the general public.

LYNN PERRY WOOTEN is the David J. Nolan Dean of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management of Cornell University. Previously, she served as Senior Associate Dean for Student and Academic Excellence and Clinical Professor of Strategy, Management, and Organizations at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Lynn’s current research bridges theory and practice and focuses on positive organizing routines, diversity management practices, and crisis leadership. Lynn is an alumna of the University of Michigan (PhD). She received her undergraduate degree from North Carolina A&T State University and her MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

MELISSA E. WOOTEN is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research lies at the theoretical intersections of organizations, race, and education. Her book, In the Face of Inequality: How Black Colleges Adapt, uses historically black colleges as an empirical context to investigate how the social structure of race and racism affect an organization’s ability to acquire the financial and political resources it needs to survive. She is currently working on a project that traces how twentieth- and twenty-first-century entrepreneurs get involved in philanthropic causes related to black education. Public commentaries on her research appear in the Conversation, in the Academic Minute, and on the website of the African American Intellectual History Society (www.AAIHS.org).