Presidential Commission on the
Status of Women

Ellen Bromberg is a filmmaker, media designer, choreographer, curator, and educator. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, she has been creating dances for companies and solo artists for over 30 years.. More...

Gretchen Dietrich has dedicated more than twenty years of her professional life to the field of art museums and believes passionately in the central importance of art and museums in contemporary society and culture. More...

Kathleen Digre is a Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology and Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and also Anesthesia at the University of Utah School Of Medicine. More...

Cynthia Furse (University of Utah BSEE ’85, MSEE 88’, PhD ‘94) is the Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Utah and Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. More...

Sarah George, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Natural History Museum of Utah and Adjunct Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Utah. More...

Rosemarie Hunter (Rosey) has been a social worker and community organizer for 30 years and with the University of Utah since, 1995. She currently serves as the Special Assistant to the President for University-Community Partnerships at the University of Utah and Director of University Neighborhood Partners (UNP). More...

JoAnn Slama Lighty is currently Chair and Professor of Chemical Engineering. She has held the position of Chair since January 2007. As Chair, she has completed a major Projects Laboratory Renovation, created an Industrial Advisory Board for the department, and continues to establish key connections with industry and alumni. More...

Patricia Santistevan Matthews is an Assistant Professor Clinical with the Mild/Moderate Special Education Program at the University of Utah. She earned her doctorate from Northern Arizona University in curriculum and instruction with a special emphasis in programming for culturally linguistically diverse populations. More...

Joyce Mitchell obtained her PhD in Population Genetics from the University of Wisconsin with postdoctoral training in clinical genetics. She is certified as a Medical Geneticist by the American Board of Medical Genetics and the American College of Medical Genetics. More...

Nalini Nadkarni has been called “The Queen of the Forest Canopy.” She has been both a pioneer in forest canopy studies and in fostering the communication of canopy research among scientists and to the general public. More...

Joyce Ogburn, Dean of the J. Willard Marriott Library and University Librarian for the University of Utah, joined the library in 2005. From 2005 through 2009 Joyce oversaw the library’s $78 million renovation project. More...

Peregrine Schwartz-Shea is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah. She joined the faculty in 1984. She teaches courses in the graduate program in political science as well as the Master’s of Public Administration program. More...

Olivia Sheng is Presidential Professor and Emma Eccles Jones Presidential Chair of Information Systems at the David Eccles School of Business, and an Adjunct Professor at School of Computing, University of Utah. More...

Kathryn Stockton With graduate degrees from Yale University Divinity School and Brown University, Kathryn Bond Stockton is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah, where she directed the Gender Studies Program for over a decade. More...