women Experts

Natalie Reisman

Vice President - LegalThe Rose Corporation

Business minded in-house counsel and executive at a real estate developer. Mother of three. Adventure seeker. Avid hiker.

Janet Austin

Chief Executive OfficerYWCA Metro Vancouver

Janet Austin is responsible for one of BC’s largest and most diversified non-profits

Mical Raz

Charles E. and Dale L. Phelps Professor in Public Policy and HealthUniversity of Rochester

Author of "What's Wrong with the Poor? Psychiatry, Race and the War on Poverty."

S. Megan Berthold, Ph.D., LCSW

Associate Professor and Director of Field EducationUniversity of Connecticut School of Social Work

Prof. Berthold's clinical and research expertise is with refugee and asylum seeking survivors of torture and the Cambodian genocide.

Dexter Gabriel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of HistoryUniversity of Connecticut

Dexter Gabriel's research interests include the history of slavery, resistance, and freedom in the Black Atlantic.

Emily Bianchi

Associate Professor of Organization & ManagementEmory University, Goizueta Business School

Kate Broer

PartnerDentons Canada LLP

Award-winning, high-profile litigation lawyer, and co-chair of Dentons Canada's one-of-a-kind National Diversity and Inclusion Initiative.

Brooke Flammang

Assistant Professor, Biological SciencesNew Jersey Institute of Technology

Professor Flammang specializes in functional morphology, biomechanics, and bioinspired technology of fishes, including sharks and remora.

Shana Poplack

Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair (I) in LinguisticsUniversity of Ottawa

Pioneering sociolinguist changing how we understand bilingual speech, code-switching & language variation.

Tammy Anderson

Professor, Sociology and Criminal JusticeUniversity of Delaware

Professor Anderson's work focuses on the sociology of deviance, substance abuse, criminology and social problems.