Women's Leadership Fellows inaugurates next class

The pipeline for campus leaders at UGA continues to grow stronger with the next class of Women's Leadership Fellows announced this week:

The 2016-2017 cohort, which includes representatives from eight schools and colleges as well as the Division of Student Affairs, will attend monthly meetings where they will learn from senior administrators on campus as well as visiting speakers from academia, business and other fields. The program, which was created in 2015 as part of the university's Women's Leadership Initiative, also features a concluding weekend retreat in June for more in-depth learning.

 

• Phaedra Corso, UGA Foundation Professor in Human Health in the College of Public Health and associate director of the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research
• Lisa Donovan, Distinguished Research Professor and head of the department of plant biology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
• Shelley B. Hooks, associate professor in the College of Pharmacy. Hooks is currently serving as interim director of the UGA Center for Drug Discovery, as well as graduate coordinator for the department of pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences
• Charlotte Mason, the C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry Chair of Business Administration and head of the marketing department in the Terry College of Business. Mason also is director of the Coca-Cola Center for Marketing Studies
• Shari Miller, associate dean and associate professor in the School of Social Work
• Julie Moore, professor of infectious diseases in the College of Veterinary Medicine and associate vice president for research
• Erin Richman, director of academic partnerships and initiatives in the Division of Student Affairs. Richman is an adjunct professor of psychology in the Franklin College and an affiliate faculty member in the Institute for Women's Studies
• Lori Ringhand, associate dean of academic affairs and a J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law in the School of Law
• Sheneka Williams, associate professor in the College of Education

Quite an impressive list, and one that speaks highly of our schools and colleges. The future of any endeavor is only as bright as its next generation of leaders, and we congratulate this cohort of faculty and administrators for being selected to specifically think about and train for leadership as part of their careers.

Image: Lisa Donovan, left, and Erin Richman.