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Sabrina Strings, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. A certified yoga teacher, her work on yoga has been featured in The Feminist Wire, Yoga International, and LA Yoga. Sabrina is also an award-winning author with publications in diverse venues including, The New York Times, Scientific American, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Her book, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (NYU Press 2019), was recently re-released as an audiobook and is available on Audible, iTunes, and Google Play. Stay up to date on her latest writings, travel and speaking engagements at SabrinaStrings.com or follow her on Twitter @SaStrings.

Lori is lead strategist for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Stanford Graduate School of Business and co-founder of the new Stanford VMware Women鈥檚 Leadership Innovation Lab, offering her unique view at the intersection of the two organizations. Under her leadership, the lab launched a corporate affiliates program in 2014 鈥� a learning community of more than 55 corporations, government agencies, and thought leaders working together for change. It is now the second largest affiliates program on the Stanford campus. In her work at Stanford GSB, Lori is pioneering 鈥渟mall wins鈥� to make the classroom experience more inclusive, to diversify our community, and to foster new research in the areas of leadership, inclusion, and diversity.

Lori is a keynote speaker to a wide range of audiences, from executive teams to women鈥檚 summits. Lori was featured as one of the BBC鈥檚 100 Women in 2017, and she was interviewed for the award-winning documentary, bias, which premiered in 2018. As the executive director of the Stanford Clayman Institute for Gender Research, she led a 10-year effort to translate research into actionable insights for change. Lori brings 20 years of marketing strategy and business management experience at companies including Procter & Gamble, Apple, eBay, and PayPal. She is a board member of the Alliance for Girls and Watermark, and an advisor to the Women鈥檚 Startup Lab. She has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Melissa Jones Briggs co-teaches Acting with Power at Stanford University鈥檚 Graduate School of Business where she is a Lecturer in Organizational Behavior. She lectures in the flagship Stanford Executive Program and is an affiliate at Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research. In the UK, Melissa serves as an associate fellow at the Oxford Character Project at the University of Oxford. Off campus, Melissa works with executives and teams at top corporations and hyper-growth startups, as well as NGOs and national institutions. Trained as a performing artist in London and New York, she is an advocate for equity in arts education, and her international non-profit work focuses on social justice.

Veronica Gillispie-Bell, MD, is a board certified obstetrician and gynecologist with Ochsner Health in New Orleans. She serves as senior site lead and section head of obstetrics and gynecology at Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner. She is director of quality for women’s services for Ochsner Health System and medical director of the Ochsner Center for the Minimally Invasive Treatment of Uterine Fibroids. She also serves as medical director of the Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative and as pregnancy-associated mortality review for the Louisiana Department of Health.
Dr. Gillispie-Bell performs advanced laparoscopic and robotic assisted laparoscopic procedures. She has participated in clinical trials for treatment options for uterine fibroids and is a national speaker and consultant on heavy menstrual bleeding associated with fibroids. She was a presenter at the inaugural Maternal Health Day of Action in 2021 hosted by the White House and has testified before Congress on maternal health. Her work with national media includes USA Today, ABC's "Good Morning America," MSNBC and The New York Times' "The 1619 Project" docuseries. 
Dr. Gillispie-Bell earned a medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, and completed residency training at Ochsner Health System. She earned a master's degree in patient safety and healthcare quality from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. She earned certification in diversity and inclusion from Cornell University in New York.
 

Dr. Kendra Calhoun is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is an interdisciplinary linguistic anthropologist with a background in linguistics, and her scholarship engages fields including media studies, communication, sociology, education, and Black Studies. Her qualitative research explores critical questions about language, identity, and power in face-to-face and mediated contexts, with particular focus on the language, culture, and experiences of Black people in the United States.
Dr. Calhoun’s research on language, race, gender, humor, and activism on social media includes studies of Vine, Tumblr, and TikTok. She has analyzed racial comedy on Vine as a platform-specific genre of African American humor, “everyday online activism” among Black Tumblr users, and linguistic innovation on TikTok in response to content moderation policies. Her dissertation, “Competing Discourses of Diversity and Inclusion: Institutional Rhetoric and Graduate Student Narratives at Two Minority Serving Institutions,” analyzed diversity discourses, ideologies, and practices in U.S. colleges and universities and their impacts on the experiences of graduate students of color.
Research interests

sociolinguistics
linguistic anthropology
power
identity
language, race, and ethnicity
online discourse
digital culture
social and entertainment media
African American language and culture
diversity discourse in higher education

Education

PhD, Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2021
BA, English Language & Literature and Experimental Psychology, University of South Carolina, 2013

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With expertise and interest in diversity and access in higher education, Dean serves as the special assistant to the president for diversity. He currently serves on the board of the National Association of Diversity Officials in Higher Education and can speak to issues regarding social identity including race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation. Dean also possesses expertise in the areas of college access and student success, especially with particular groups e.g., women in STEM.
He received his master's and bachelor's degrees from James Madison University.