Diversity

The Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) Secretary and Diversity Committee (DC), as well as the Graduate School are working together to get a list of diversity efforts happening on campus.  Special thanks to the Graduate Schools first Leadership Professor Dr. Gino Aisenberg for sharing this information with us. The results of this search are below, but if there are groups missing please send that info to Kristen Hosey, GPSS Secretary at gpsssec@uw.edu

Also, check out our Diversity Funds services.

Departmental Resources for Diversity:

• Anthropology: Contact Dr. Kathy O'Connor: oconnork@uw.edu
• Arts & Sciences: Contact Kari Lerum: klerum@uwb.edu
• Astronautics and Aeronautics: Contact Jim Hermanson: jherm@aa.washington.edu
• Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences: Contact: Kari Lerum klerum@uwb.edu    
• Biology: Contact Dr. Barbara Wakimoto: wakimoto@uw.edu
• Biochemistry: Contact David Kimelman: kimelman@u.washington.edu
• Business: Contact Tom Lee: orcas@u.washington.edu
• Classics: Contact Sarah Stroup: scstroup@u.washington.edu
• Comparative Literature: Contact: Leroy Searle lsearle@uw.edu
• Communications: David Domke: domke@uw.edu
• Education: Contact Joe Lott: jlott1@u.washington.edu or Manka Varghese: mankav@u.washington.edu
• Engineering: Women in Science & Engineering
• English Graduate Student Diversity Committee: Contact Elloise Kim: elloise@uw.edu or Leanne Day: lpday@uw.edu or Juan Guerra: jguerra@uw.edu
• Environment: Contact Jill Logeman: jilogeman@uw.edu or Julia Parrish: jparrish@uw.edu
• Environmental and Forest Sciences: Contact Michelle Trudeau: michtru@u.washington.edu
• Environmental and Occupational Health: Contact Dr. Tom Burbacher: tmb@uw.edu
• Genome Sciences: Contact Dr. Christine Queitsch: queitsch@u.washington.edu or Dr. Robert Waterston: waterston@gs.washington.edu or Dr. Willie Swanson: wjs18@u.washington.edu or Dr. Joshua Akey: akeyj@u.washington.edu
• Geography: Contact Vicky Lawson: lawson@uw.edu
• Human Centered Design & Engineering: Contact: Jan Spyridakis jansp@uw.edu
• Information: Contact Cynthia Del Rosario: cyn@uw.edu
• Landscape Architecture: Contact Jeff Hou: jhou@u.washington.edu
• Law School Diveristy Committee: Contact Rachael Wallace: wallace.rachael@gmail.com
• Linguistics: Contact: Emily M. Bender ebender@uw or Alicia Beckford Wassink wassink@uw
• Mathematics: "Women in Mathematics Group", Contact Debra Matthews: dsmatth@uw.edu
• Music: Contact JoAnn Taricani: taricani@u.washington.edu
• Nursing: Contact Butch de Castro: butchdec@u.washington.edu
• Philosophy: Contact Sara Goering: sgoering@uw.edu
• Physics: Contact Mackenzie Barton-Rowledge: mdbr@uw.edu or Miguel Morales: mmorales@phys.washington.edu
• Political Science: Contact Chris Parker: csparker@u.washington.edu
• Psychology: Contact: psychdsc@u.washington.edu or Yuichi Shoda: yshoda@uw.edu
• Public Affairs: Evans School Partnership for Community and Diversity: Contact Vora Savengseuksa: voradas@uw.edu or Shichen Liu: liu90@u.washington.edu
• Public Health: Contact: India Ornelas iornelas@u.washington.edu or John Davis jhdavis3@uw.edu
• Sociology Graduate Student Diversity Committee: Contact Cara Margherio: clm16@u.washington.edu or Thiago Marques: thiagm@uw.edu
• Urban Design & Planning: Contact: Branden Born bborn@uw.edu or Manish Chalana chalana@u.washington.edu

General Campus Resources for Diversity:

• Advancing Chicanos/Latinos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) UW Chapter
• African Student Association
• Black Student Union
• Career Center Diversity Links
• Diversity Research Institute (DRI)
• Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC)
• First Nations at the University of Washington
• Foundation of International Understand through Students (FIUTS)
• Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP)
• Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI)
• National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) UW Chapter
• Native American Students in Advanced Academia (NASAA)
• OMAD
• Q Center
• Rainbow Grads
• Student Activities Office
• UW Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Science and Engineering Careers (ADVANCE)
• UW Women’s Center
• UW Gay Bisexual Lesbian Transgender Commission
• Women of Color Collective (WOCC)
• WISER