Appendix A

Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Commissioned Paper Authors

COMMITTEE

Elena Fuentes-Afflick (Chair) is professor of pediatrics and vice dean for the UCSF School of Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Throughout her career, Dr. Fuentes-Afflick has personally managed and mentored faculty and staff on a range of caregiving issues in the context of academic medicine. In 2010, Dr. Fuentes-Afflick was elected to membership in the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and has served on numerous consensus committees, the Membership Committee, and the Diversity Committee; she was elected to the Governing Council and the Executive Committee of Council, and was elected Home Secretary. In 2020, Dr. Fuentes-Afflick was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Fuentes-Afflick obtained her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in public health (epidemiology) from the University of California, Berkeley. She completed her pediatric residency and chief residency at UCSF, followed by a research fellowship at the Phillip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF.

Marianne Bertrand is the Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Born in Belgium, Professor Bertrand received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Belgium’s Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1991, followed by a master’s

degree in econometrics from the same institution the next year. She earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1998. She was a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Princeton University for 2 years before joining Chicago Booth in 2000. Professor Bertrand is an applied micro-economist whose research covers the fields of labor economics, corporate finance, political economy, and development economics. Her research in these areas has been published widely, including numerous research articles in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review, and the Review of Economic Studies. Professor Bertrand is a co-director of Chicago Booth’s Rustandy Center for Social Sector Innovation and the director of the Inclusive Economy Lab at the University of Chicago Urban Labs. Professor Bertrand also served as co-editor of the American Economic Review. She has received several awards and honors, including the 2004 Elaine Bennett Research Prize, awarded by the American Economic Association to recognize and honor outstanding research in any field of economics by a woman at the beginning of her career, and the 2012 Society of Labor Economists’ Rosen Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Labor Economics. Professor Bertrand is a research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Center for Economic Policy Research, and the Institute for the Study of Labor. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Mary Blair-Loy is professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. She uses multiple methods to study gender, work, and family. Much scholarship emphasizes individuals’ strategic trade-offs or implicit biases. In contrast, Professor Blair-Loy analyzes normative cultural models of a worthwhile life, including the “work devotion schema” (which defines professional work as a calling that penalizes involved caregiving) and the “schema of scientific excellence” (which defines scholarly excellence in terms of culturally masculine traits such as assertive self-promotion). Her 2022 book Misconceiving Merit: Paradoxes of Excellence and Devotion in Academic Science and Engineering with Erin Cech uses multiple types of evidence to show that these cultural schemas are broadly embraced yet harm scientists and science. A 2022 article in Science shows how hiring rubrics can devalue women academic engineers. A 2019 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) article with Cech uses longitudinal data to show substantial attrition of new mothers from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and was recognized as a Top 10 PNAS Article

of 2019 to make a “large impact on the public understanding of science.” Professor Blair-Loy has been recognized as a Top Ten Extraordinary Contributor in the Landmark Contributions category in the international field of work-family research. She holds a B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and an M.Div. from Harvard.

Kathleen Christensen founded the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Workplace, Workforce, and Working Families program in 1994 and spearheaded it for two decades. Under her strategic leadership, the foundation has been credited as a driving force in creating the work-family research field and with launching the first national, multicollaborator movement to make workplace flexibility a compelling national issue and the standard of the American workplace. She designed the Faculty Career Flexibility Awards program that, with the American Council on Education, recognized more than 40 colleges, universities, and medical schools for their innovative policies and practices. The endowed Kathleen Christensen Dissertation Award was established by Society of Human Resources Managers and the Work and Family Researchers Network to encourage doctoral candidates and early-career scholars to achieve high and rigorous standards in work-family research. She has been honored as one of the Top Ten Extraordinary Contributors to Work and Family Research (2018), one of the Seven Wonders of the Work-Life Field by Working Mother magazine (2010), and with the inaugural Work Life Legacy Award by the Families and Work Institute (2004). Dr. Christensen planned and participated in the 2010 White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility, as well as the 2014 White House Summit on Working Families. She is the recipient of Danforth, Mellon, and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. She has authored/edited seven books, including some of the earliest research on working at home and on contingent work. Prior to the Sloan Foundation, Dr. Christensen was a professor of psychology at the Graduate Center of City University of New York. She currently serves as a faculty fellow at Boston College’s Center for Social Innovation, where she co-directs Work Equity, a new initiative to address inequities that are institutionalized employment systems. She received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in geography and philosophy of science.

J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom is an associate professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and co-director of Caregiver and Bereavement Support Services in the UAB Center for

Palliative and Supportive Care. Dr. Dionne-Odom is board certified in hospice and palliative care advanced practice nursing with more than 10 years clinical experience in critical care and 10 years in telehealth palliative care coaching. He is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in developing and testing early palliative interventions for family caregivers of individuals with serious illness, focusing particularly on historically underresourced populations. Dr. Dionne-Odom’s research has totaled $9 million from the National Institute of Nursing Research, the National Cancer Institute, the National Palliative Care Research Center, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Cambia Health Foundation, Sigma Theta Tau International, the American Association of Critical Care Nursing, and the UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care. In 2020, he received the Protégé Award from the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research and was inducted as a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing. Dr. Dionne-Odom acquired his B.S.N. degree from Florida State University (2002), an M.A. in philosophy and education from Teachers College, Columbia University (2006), an M.S.N. in nursing at Boston College (2010), and his Ph.D. in nursing at Boston College (2013).

Mignon Duffy is a professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her primary research interests center on care work—the work (paid and unpaid) of taking care of others, including children and those who are elderly, ill, or disabled. She is particularly interested in how the social organization of care intersects with gender, race, class, and other systems of inequality. Her most recent project is an edited volume (co-edited with Amy Armenia and Kim Price-Glynn) that is forthcoming from Rutgers University Press entitled From Crisis to Catastrophe: Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change. She is also the co-editor of Caring on the Clock: The Complexities and Contradictions of Paid Care (2015) and the author of Making Care Count: One Hundred Years of Gender, Race, and Paid Care Work (2011). Dr. Duffy is also a longtime leader (currently serving as past chair) of the Carework Network, an international organization of care work researchers and advocates. Her research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Gender & Society and Social Problems. Committed to connecting her research to policy, Dr. Duffy has worked in collaboration with policy organizations such as the United Nations, the International Labor Organization, and the World Economic Forum.

Jeff Gillis-Davis is a professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis. Previously, he was faculty at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

(2003–2018). Dr. Gillis-Davis combines experiments, remote sensing, and sample analysis to study the geology of the Moon, Mercury, and asteroids. His primary research area centers on a process known as space weathering. To study space weathering in the laboratory, he uses lasers to replicate the impact of dust-sized particles on the surfaces of these airless bodies. The intense impact energy of these dust-sized particles transforms minerals into glass, can destroy polar ice deposits, or leads to intriguing chemical processes. Dr. Gillis-Davis leads a team of researchers who study the complex processes and environments that determine where ice will be, how it may be modified, how water was delivered to the Moon, and its active water cycle. This team is called the Interdisciplinary Consortium for Evaluating Volatile Origins, or ICE Five-O, one of NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, or SSERVI. He has also participated as a science team member in three NASA missions: Clementine, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Miniature Radio-Frequency team, and MESSENGER.

Reshma Jagsi is chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University and Winship Cancer Institute. A graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Oxford, where she studied as a British Marshall Scholar, she completed her residency training and an ethics fellowship at Harvard before joining the faculty of the University of Michigan, where she served as the director of its Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine. Gender equity in academic medicine has been a key area of her scholarly focus, a subject to which she brings her perspective as a physician and social scientist, to promote evidence-based intervention. Author of more than 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including multiple high-impact studies in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, and JAMA, her research to promote gender equity has been funded by R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as large independent grants from the Doris Duke Foundation and several other philanthropic foundations. Her Doris Duke Foundation grant has focused specifically on the development and evaluation of programs intended to support academic medical faculty with family caregiving demands, including an initiative that began well before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and a new program inspired by the pandemic and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on COVID-19 and women. She has mentored dozens of others in research investigating women’s underrepresentation in senior positions in academic medicine and the mechanisms that must be targeted to promote equity.

Active in organized medicine, she has served on the Steering Committee of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ (AAMC’s) Group on Women in Medicine in Science. She now serves on the National Academies’ Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine and the Advisory Committee for Research on Women’s Health for the NIH. She was part of the Lancet’s advisory committee for its theme issue on women in science, medicine, and global health, which served to foster additional research. An internationally recognized clinical trialist and health services researcher in breast cancer, her work is frequently featured in the popular media, including coverage by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR. Her contributions have been recognized with her election to the American Society for Clinical Investigation and Association of American Physicians, the Leadership Award of the AAMC’s Group on Women in Medicine and Science, LEAD Oncology’s Woman of the Year Award, American Medical Women’s Association’s Woman in Science Award, and American Medical Student Association’s Women Leaders in Medicine Award. She is a fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society for Radiation Oncology, American Association for Women in Radiology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Hastings Center.

Ellen Ernst Kossek is the Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor in the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. Prior to joining Purdue, Dr. Kossek was University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University. She is the first elected president of the Work and Family Researchers Network, and has won dozens of awards for research and service excellence related to advancing the organizational work and family research stream in the field of management. She is an internationally recognized researcher who studies how employment policies and practices to support positive work-family-life relationships impact gender equality and diversity, equity, and inclusion. She designs and conducts field experiments to help organizations and leaders implement work-life flexibility, and work-life cultural change and gender and diversity equality initiatives. Dr. Kossek is elected a fellow in the Academy of Management, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the American Psychological Association. She holds a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the Yale School of Management, an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. with honors in psychology from Mount Holyoke College. She led in writing a report for the National Academy of Sciences on the effects of COVID-19 on the work-life boundaries and domestic labor of women in academic STEMM.

Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux is the assistant vice president for diversity, equity, inclusion, and assessment and the chief institutional research officer at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In this role, she develops and implements research-informed, metrics-driven institutional efforts to ensure that Caltech is a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment for all community members. She also oversees all areas of institutional research in support of the institute’s planning and decision-making processes. Her scholarly research focuses on understanding the institutional conditions that advance racial and gender equity in STEM fields. Prior to joining Caltech, she served as the associate director of research and policy at the Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern California (USC) and was a research associate professor in the USC Rossier School of Education. She has also held faculty positions at the George Washington University and the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Malcom-Piqueux earned her Ph.D. in urban education with an emphasis in higher education from the University of Southern California, her M.S. in planetary science from Caltech, and her S.B. in planetary science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has previously served on the National Academies’ study committees Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in the Leadership of Competed Space Missions and Developing Indicators for Undergraduate STEM Education.

Sandra Kazahn Masur is a basic scientist and an activist for women in science and medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York where she is professor of ophthalmology and of pharmacological sciences and director of its Office for Women’s Careers within the Office for Gender Equity in Science and Medicine. Her NIH-funded research explored the cell biology of membrane transport and of corneal wound healing. In active support of scientists, she chaired the Women in Cell Biology Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and was co-director of the National Eye Institute’s Fundamental Issues in Vision Research at the Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She was a participant in the NIH Office for Research in Women’s Health strategic planning for Women in Science. The Sandra K. Masur Senior Leadership Award was established by the ASCB to honor individuals with exemplary achievements in cell biology who are also outstanding mentors. She received the Women in Medicine Silver Achievement Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Outstanding Woman Scientist award of the Association for Women in Science and is an elected fellow of the ASCB.

Maria (Mia) Ong is a senior research scientist at TERC, a research and development organization dedicated to STEM education that is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to working at TERC, Dr. Ong served on faculty at Swarthmore College, Wellesley College, and Harvard University Graduate School of Education. For nearly three decades, she has researched the experiences of women of color and members of other marginalized groups in computer science, engineering, physics, and general STEM higher education and professions, with emphases on qualitative studies and literature synthesis projects. She has led or co-led numerous projects funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation (NSF). She holds more than 40 solo- or co-authored publications on equity and inclusion topics, including career-life balance, caregiving, counterspaces, and changing cultural norms in STEM. Dr. Ong has served on several national committees and task forces, including the NSF Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (2008–2014), the Social Science Advisory Board of the National Center for Women & Information Technology (2008–2022; chair 2017–2018), the American Institute of Physics National Task Force to Elevate African American Representation in Physics & Astronomy (TEAM-UP, 2017–2020), and the National Academies Committee on Addressing the Underrepresentation of Women of Color in Tech (2019–2022). She is a co-recipient of a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (1998) and a co-recipient of the Excellence in Physics Education Award from the American Physical Society (2022). Dr. Ong holds a Ph.D. in social and cultural studies in education from the University of California, Berkeley.

Robert L. Phillips, Jr., is the founding executive director of the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care in Washington, D.C. He is a practicing family physician with training in health services and primary care research. His research seeks to inform clinical care and policies that support it. He leads a national primary care registry with related research on social determinants of health, rural health, and changes in primary care practice. Dr. Phillips has often served the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, including as vice chair of the Council on Graduate Medical Education, co-chair of the Population Health Subcommittee of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, and on the Negotiated Rule-Making Committee on Shortage Designation. Dr. Phillips was elected to the NAM in 2010, and he was a Fulbright Specialist to the Netherlands

and New Zealand. Dr. Phillips completed medical school at the University of Florida, where he graduated with honors for special distinction, and trained clinically in family medicine at the University of Missouri, where he completed a National Research Service Award Fellowship. He currently serves as the chair of the NAM Membership Committee and has served on multiple consensus studies, contributed to several workshops, and served as a reviewer.

Jason Resendez is the president and CEO of the National Alliance for Caregiving (NAC), where he leads research, policy, and innovation initiatives to build health, wealth, and equity for America’s 53 million family caregivers. Mr. Resendez is a nationally recognized expert on family care, aging, and the science of inclusion in research. In 2020, he was named one of America’s top influencers in aging by PBS’s Next Avenue alongside Michael J. Fox and Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy. Prior to joining NAC, he was the founding executive director of the UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Center for Brain Health Equity and was the principal investigator of a Healthy Brain Initiative cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While at UsAgainstAlzheimer’s, he pioneered the concept of brain health equity through peer-reviewed research, public health partnerships, and public policy. He has been quoted by the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, STAT News, Time, Newsweek, and Univision on health equity issues and has received the Service Award for Caregiving from the National Hispanic Council on Aging; the LULAC Presidential Medal of Honor; and the HerMANO Award from MANA, A National Latina Organization, for his advocacy on behalf of the Latino community.

Hannah Valantine received her M.B.B.S. degree from London University, cardiology fellowship at Stanford, and doctor of medicine from London University. She was appointed assistant professor of medicine, rising to full professor of medicine in 2000, and becoming the inaugural senior associate dean for diversity and leadership in 2004. She pursued a data-driven transformative approach to this work, receiving the NIH Director’s Pathfinder Award. Dr. Francis Collins, NIH director, recruited her in 2014 as the inaugural NIH chief officer for scientific workforce diversity, and as a tenured investigator in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s intramural research program, where she established the laboratory of transplantation genomics. Dr. Valantine is a nationally recognized pioneer in her field, with more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, patents, and sustained NIH

funding. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2020 for her pioneering research in organ transplantation and in workforce diversity.

Joan Williams is the Sullivan Professor of Law and founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law at UC College of the Law, San Francisco. Professor Williams has played a central role in reshaping the conversation about work, gender, and class over the past quarter century. Her path-breaking work helped create the field of work-family studies and modern workplace flexibility policies. She is one of the most cited scholars in her field and is the author of 11 books and more than 100 academic articles. Her many honors include President’s Award, Society of Women Engineers (2019); Top Ten Extraordinary Contributor to Work and Family Research Award, Work and Family Researchers Network (2018); Work Life Legacy Award, Families and Work Institute (2014); and Outstanding Scholar Award, Fellows of the American Bar Foundation (2012). Professor Williams received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

COMMISSIONED PAPER AUTHORS

Ngoc Dao is an assistant professor at the College of Business and Public Management at Kean University, and a research fellow at the Center for Financial Security (CFS) Retirement and Disability Research Center (RDRC), University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Dao studies economics of retirement and caregiving, with a particular focus on the relationship between public policies and retirement behaviors, health utilization of, and caregiving for older adults and disabled individuals. One of her works studies the impact of public policies (including Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credit, and State Family Paid Leave) on formal and informal (family) caregiving provisions. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and CFS RDRC at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Erin Frawley is an education equity program manager at the Center for WorkLife Law. Prior to joining WorkLife Law, she worked with the San Francisco Unified School District, building the capacity of school site staff to work toward anti-racism and authentic partnership with all students and families. She has also taught English as a second language, worked as a reading comprehension specialist, and developed workshops and curricula for

several nonprofit organizations and schools. Within the realm of education, Ms. Frawley is most passionate about large-scale systems change informed by student voice and working to bridge the divide between research, theory, and practice to support educational equity. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature and psychology from the University of Connecticut and a master’s degree in human development and psychology from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

Jessica Lee is a senior staff attorney at the Center for WorkLife Law, and director of the center’s Pregnant Scholar Initiative, the nationwide legal resource center for pregnant and parenting students. Her research and advocacy advances gender and racial equity in the workplace and in education, and she is a nationally recognized expert on the laws at the intersection of employment, education, and maternal and infant health. She provides a wide scope of partner organizations with know-your-rights training and strategic tools. Model legislation co-drafted by Ms. Lee has been introduced in Congress, and at the state level she regularly advises state and local enforcement agencies, and she has guided dozens of educational institutions through drafting and implementing family-responsive policies. She also provides know-your-rights resources and trainings to educate parents and change-makers on the legal rights of caregivers in the workplace and in education—translating complicated legal issues into approachable and useful tools for thousands of nonlawyers. During the COVID-19 crisis, she used her expertise to advance pandemic-related policies to support parents and other caregivers, and she manages the center’s free legal helpline. Ms. Lee’s work has been covered by a variety of press, from the New York Times to the BBC, and her writing has appeared in publications ranging from Harvard Business Review and the Chronicle of Higher Education to law reviews and medical journals.

Ashley Lowe is a researcher on the Transformative Research Unit for Equity at RTI International. She has a decade of experience conducting intervention and evaluation studies related to community, youth, and sexual violence, racial and community justice, mental health promotion, and the prevention of substance abuse. Ms. Lowe leads mixed-methods research projects, including tasks related to monitoring and evaluation, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, and survey development. Her goal is to support individuals living in communities disproportionately impacted by violence through individual, community, and system-level interventions.

Jennifer Lundquist is associate dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A social demographer with an emphasis on race and ethnic stratification, family formation patterns, and immigration, Dr. Lundquist evaluates racial disparities along a variety of demographic outcomes, including marriage, family stability, fertility, and health. Her work in this area extends to an exploration of the neighborhood effects of residential segregation as well as a reevaluation of race relations from a social contact hypothesis perspective. Recent work includes the 2021 book (with Celeste Curington and Ken-Hou Lin) The Dating Divide: Race and Intimacy in the Era of Online Romance. She has published her research in a variety of journals, including Social Forces, American Journal of Sociology, and American Sociological Review, and is the co-author of a well-known demography textbook. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and covered by media outlets including Time, Newsweek, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and National Public Radio.

Tasseli McKay is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Sociology at Duke University, working with mentor Christopher Wilde-man. She is also affiliated with RTI’s Transformative Research Unit for Equity. Dr. McKay serves as principal investigator on the Institutional Contact and Family Violence in an Era of Mass Incarceration project funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. She holds a doctorate in social policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.A. in American studies from Yale University. Previously, Dr. McKay worked on the Multi-site Family Study of Incarceration, Parenting, and Partnering, a mixed-methods longitudinal study of two thousand families affected by incarceration. This culminated in her first book, Holding On: Family and Fatherhood During Incarceration and Reentry (University of California Press, 2019) with Megan Comfort, Christine Lindquist, and Anupa Bir. Dr. McKay’s most recent book, Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power: The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration (University of California Press, 2022), finds that the steep direct costs of mass-scale imprisonment are far overshadowed by its hidden costs and harms, many of which have been kept out of sight by women’s labor. She argues that reparations to Black Americans are critical to any effort to bring mass incarceration to an end.

Joya Misra is the Provost Professor of Sociology and Public Policy and Roy J. Zuckerberg Endowed Leadership Chair and previously served as director of the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass), from 2019 to 2023. She is also the president of the American Sociological Association and a recent Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship Award winner. Dr. Misra is deeply committed to a publicly engaged social science, with the aim of leveraging knowledge to foster more equitable societies. Her research and teaching primarily focus on social inequality, including inequalities by gender and gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, citizenship, parenthood status, and educational level. Her work explores the role that policies play in both mediating and entrenching inequality, and primarily falls into the subfields of race/gender/class, political sociology, work and labor, family, and welfare states. Five major grants from the National Science Foundation since 2006 have helped to support Dr. Misra’s research, which in 2009 garnered her and Michelle Budig the inaugural World Bank/Luxembourg Income Study Gender Research Award. She is currently principal investigator on the 5-year, $3 million NSF Advance Institutional Transformation grant, sustaining ISSR’s leadership role in this important vehicle for advancing equity at the intersections of race and gender in science careers at UMass. Other accolades include the SBS Outstanding Teaching Award (2004–2005), UMass Sociology Mentoring Award (2009–2010, 2014–2015) and Sociologists for Women in Society Mentoring Award (2010). She served as editor of Gender & Society, one of the most important journals in the fields of sociology and gender studies.

Joanna Riccitelli is a Ph.D. student in sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the assistant editor of the American Sociological Review. Her research focuses on gender, health, well-being, and higher education. Her current project explores the public discourse around the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine in the United States.

Monica Sheppard is the co-director of the Transformative Research Unit for Equity (TRUE) Emerging Equity Scholar (EES) Program, which provides holistic mentorship through well-being support and professional development. In this role Ms. Sheppard is responsible for directing the well-being component of the mentoring program, training, and supporting the Wellbeing Mentors, co-creating the EES Curriculum, and participating in other essential program functions such as the EES Speaker Series and Soft

Skills sessions. Aside from EES, Ms. Sheppard’s current projects include work as the qualitative data collection lead in a project aimed to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system of a Pennsylvania county, and a site liaison and assistant task lead for a research project in support of advancing pretrial policy and research. In addition to project work, Ms. Sheppard is involved in several initiatives aimed at addressing and improving RTI’s mission for equity, diversity, inclusion, and belonging. Her positions as the EES well-being director and TRUE’s well-being liaison has positioned her to collaborate on future research studies that center well-being, and strategy sessions with different groups at RTI to think through how best to support RTI employee well-being.

Sarah Stoller is a freelance writer, editor, and research consultant. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley. Her writing on labor, feminism, and parenthood, as well as popular culture and the crisis of higher education, has appeared in both public and scholarly venues, including Slate, Salon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Aeon Magazine, Jezebel, the Washington Post, and more. Her first book, Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain, was published in 2023 with MIT Press.

Courtney Van Houtven is a professor in the Department of Population Health Science, Duke University School of Medicine, and Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. She is also a research scientist in Health Services Research and Development in Primary Care at the Durham Veteran’s Administration. Dr. Van Houtven’s aging and economics research interests encompass long-term care financing, intrahousehold decision-making, informal care, and end-of-life care. She examines how family caregiving affects health care utilization, expenditures, health and work outcomes of care recipients and caregivers. She directs the VA-Cares Evaluation Center in the Durham COIN (Center of Innovation), which recently completed a national evaluation of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers, a program that supports family members who care for injured post-9/11 veterans. She is a co-investigator on the NIA/NIH CARE IDEAS R01 study examining outcomes among care partners and persons with cognitive impairment and dementia and on an R01 called Informal Caregiver Burden in Advanced Cancer: Economic and Health Outcomes.