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Canan Bilen-Green is Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Equity at North Dakota State University. She is also Dale Hogoboom Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming. She holds additional degrees from Middle East Technical University (B.S.), Bilkent University (M.S.), and University of Wyoming (M.S.). Dr. Bilen-Green’s primary teaching and research interest is in quality engineering and management of people systems. She served as lead investigator and director of the National Science Foundation funded ADVANCE FORWARD Institutional Transformation program and the ADVOCATE FORWARD PLAN-D partnership project. Dr. Bilen-Green formed, led, and/or served on various institutional committees including Commission of the Status of Women Faculty, Women with Disabilities Task Force, Promotion to Professor Task Force, and the NDSU Childcare Center Committee.

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Adrienne R. Minerick is Director of ADVANCE at Michigan Tech and Professor of Chemical Engineering. She has served as Associate Dean for Research and Innovation in the College of Engineering, Assistant to the Provost for Faculty Development, Dean of the School of Technology, founded the College of Computing, and most recently served as Interim Dean of the Pavlis Honors College.

She has received numerous honors and awards, including the distinction of Fellow of AAAS and ASEE, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Raymond W. Fahien Award from the Chemical Engineering Division of ASEE, and Michigan Tech's Fredrick D. Williams Instructional Innovation Award. She and her students have published over 100 archival journal publications, book chapters, or proceedings articles and earned 23 best paper/presentation awards.

Adrienne previously served as the President of the AES Electrophoresis Society and on the ASEE's Board of Directors as First Vice President and Professional Interest Council I Chair. She also chaired ASEE's National Diversity Committee. Her research and service interests regularly intersect and involve underserved individuals with an emphasis on research experiences to increase engagement and retention.

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Dr. Cinzia Cervato is the lead PI of the NSF-funded ADVANCE Midwest Partnership project and Morrill Professor of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences. She has served as faculty fellow for early career and term faculty in the Office of the Provost and faculty fellow for strategic planning in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

She earned a doctor of geology degree from the University of Padova (Italy), and a Doctor of Natural Sciences and Doctor of Science (Habilitation) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. Her geoscience research focused on geochemistry and sedimentology. She led the CHRONOS project, a collaborative NSF-funded geoinformatics project to connect stratigraphic, sedimentological, and geochemical data.

A Fellow of the Geological Society of America, she has led numerous projects funded by NSF focused on reforming science education especially in large enrollment introductory courses and labs. She was coPI of two Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s awards to transform math and science courses and embed research projects in introductory labs.

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Sonia Goltz is Mickus Endowed Faculty Fellow of Business Impact in the College of Business at Michigan Tech and teaches organizational behavior and organizational change. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Purdue University. Her research examines topics such as organizational change, social power and coercion, and gender equity and has been published in business and applied social sciences journals including: Human Relations, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Decision Sciences, Journal of Small Business Management, and Journal of Organizational Behavior Management. She is a co-PI on Michigan Tech’s NSF ADVANCE Adaptation grant, a collaborator on the NSF ADVANCE Midwest Partnership grant led by Iowa State, and received Michigan Tech’s diversity award in 2021.

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David W. Wahl is a social psychologist currently working as a research associate with the ADVANCE Midwest Partnership at Iowa State University.

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Dr. Patricia Sotirin is a Research Professor in the Department of Humanities at Michigan Tech. She earned a Ph.D. in Communication from Purdue University and her research areas include interpretive qualitative methods, feminist theory, embodied gender in organizations, and kinship communication. She has co-authored or co-edited six books on such topics as poststructuralist qualitative research; feminist resilience; feminist vigilance; women on the homefront; aunts in popular culture and aunt/niece/nephew communication. Her published articles include analyses of dual career issues, embodiment in change management, DEI training, and organizational resistance. She has published in such journals as the Journal of Organizational Change Management; Qualitative Inquiry; Review of Higher Education; Organization Management Journal; Journal of Social and Personal Relationships; and Organization: The Critical Journal of Organization, Theory, and Society. She has been President of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG) and Editor of Women & Language. She has been on over fifty graduate committees and received an Outstanding Mentor Award from OSCLG. She is a Co-PI on an NSF ADVANCE Adaptation grant at Michigan Technological University.

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Associate professor in the Social Sciences department at Michigan Technological University with a background in computational social science, research design, and social science research methods for assessment and evaluation purposes

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