Equity Advisors serve as a resource to support faculty and staff committee work by providing guidance for best practices in the recruitment, retention, and promotion of high-quality faculty and staff. Equity Advisors serve on committees outside of their own department/work unit to provide impartial and unbiased support for inclusive excellence. They provide an equity-lens regarding gender, race, ethnicity, and other dimensions of identity so that search, promotion, and other academic processes are equitable and inclusive across all departments/units, including those in STEM.
Equity Advisor Steering Committee:
Alice Hall* (ADVANCE Team)
Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs
Matthew Taylor* (ADVANCE Team)
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Arts & Sciences
Cynthia Dupureur (ADVANCE Team)
Professor, Chemistry
Equity Advisors are available to serve on search committees (outside of their department or unit) for full-time faculty and administrator positions, executive staff positions, and any staff position that engages with constituents at a campus-wide level or works across departments/units.
Equity Advisors support an equitable and inclusive search process by:
Equity Advisors do NOT provide input or advice on candidates or have any decision-making or formal authority.
If you would like the support of an equity advisor on your committee, please submit this form. In the form, you will be asked to identify 3-4 Equity Advisors (listed below) who would be eligible to serve on your committee because there is no conflict of interest nor close working relationship to your department or hiring committee members. Faculty and staff Equity Advisors are eligible to serve on both faculty and staff hiring committees because their expertise is related to inclusive and equitable hiring practices that span all types of searches.
Equity Advisors:
Bindu Arya, Professor of Global Leadership and Management, College of Business Administration
Lindsay Athamanah, Assistant Professor, Educational Preparation and Leadership, College of Education
Alicia Beatty, Associate Professor, Chemistry
Myron Burr, Program Manager for Strategic Initiatives
Cynthia Dupureur (ADVANCE Team), Professor, Chemistry
Sherry Fantroy-Ross, Senior Program Manager, Dean College of Business Administration
Francesca Ferrari, Director, Graduate Business Programs and Administrative Director of the DBA Program, College of Business Administration
Gerald Gao, Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Affairs, College of Business Administration
Harry Harris, Director, TRIO Support Services
Keri Jupka, Senior Research Associate, College of Nursing
Vanessa Loyd, Associate Teaching Professor, Fellow for Diversity Equity and Inclusion, College of Nursing
Olivia Mendez-Alm, Associate Director of Enrollment Management, Strategic Enrollment
Amber Reinhart, Associate Provost, VC Academic Affairs
Rebecca Rogers, Endowed Professor of Tutorial Education, Education Preparation and Leadership, College of Education
Angel Simmons, Associate Dean of Student Services and Alumni Relations/Director of Continuing Education, College of Optometry
Lynn Staley, Professor, English
Tanisha Stevens*, Vice Chancellor for Institutional Effectiveness and Compliance
Keith Stine, Department Chair and Professor, Chemistry
Jessica Swederske, Director, Title IX and Equity Office
Wen Zeng, Senior Program Support Coordinator, Educational Preparation and Leadership
*Unavailable to serve as an Equity Advisor, but available to serve on administrator and executive search committees as a member.
