Reflections on Rejection Panel

Reflections on Rejection: Rachel Chapman, David Domke, Vicky Lawson, Bob Stacey and Kate Starbird

Reflections on Rejection are a collection of stories and experiences of success and failure, risk and redemption shared by some of our outstanding University of Washington faculty. Come join Undergraduate Academic Affairs, in collaboration with Stanford University, for our resilience main event Wednesday evening in the Intellectual House.

Introducing our Reflections on Rejection panelists!

Wednesday, May 6 | wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House

5:00 p.m. – Doors open and dinner is served
5:30-7:00 p.m. – Our panel shares their stories of failing forward
7:00-7:30 p.m. – Stick around for a dessert reception and informal conversation with academic advisers, career counselors and UW community members

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Panelists:

Rachel Chapman is an associate professor of anthropology and an adjunct associate professor of global health. As a social cultural applied anthropologist, Chapman is currently studying gender, race, reproductive health and social justice in the urban United States and Southern and East Africa.

David Domke, professor and chair of Communication, studies political leadership, news coverage, and social change, with particular interest in the dynamics of post-9/11 America.

Vicky Lawson is a professor of geography and director of the UW Honors Program. Lawson is the co-founder of the Relational Poverty Network.

Bob Stacey serves as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and is also a professor of history who focuses on the history of the Jews in medieval England.

Kate Starbird is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) and director of the Emerging Capacities of Mass Participation (emCOMP) laboratory. Starbird’s first career as a professional basketball player, spanned 12 seasons, 10 teams, 5 countries and 3 continents.

For more information on all of the Fail Forward: Nurturing a Resilient Mindset events, visit our website.

We would like to thank our colleagues at Harvard University for sharing their ideas and passion for developing resilience in all of us. The original Reflections on Rejection panels were born out of Harvard University’s Success-Failure Project.