Equity Institute Affiliates

Leadership

Wendy Ellis

Wendy Ellis, Director

Dr. Wendy Ellis is an Assistant Professor in Global Health and the Director of the Center for Community Resilience at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University.

Full Biography

Dayna Bowen Matthew

Dayna Bowen Matthew, Co-Founder

Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD, PhD, is the Dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. A leader in public health and civil rights law who focuses on disparities in health, health care, and the social determinants of health, Dean Matthew joined GW Law in 2020. She also is the founder and inaugural faculty director of GW’s newly chartered Equity Institute, an interdisciplinary research hub dedicated to addressing racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic injustice. A prolific writer, Dean Matthew is the author of two bestselling books, Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care, and the recently released Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America, and the co-author of a case book on public health law, ethics, and policy.

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Equity Institute Affiliates

The George Washington University Equity Institute is a university-wide collaboration to create an institute dedicated to community-engaged research on the worldwide problem of racial and ethnic inequality. Our affiliates consist of faculty members from almost every school in the university.

 

Don Braman

Associate Professor of Law, GW Law

 

Jennifer Brinkerhoff

Professor of International Affairs, International Business, and Public Policy & Public Administration, Elliott School of International Affairs

 

Amy Cohen

Executive Director, Honey W. Nashman Center Civic Engagement and Public Service

 

 

Shawneequa Callier

Associate Professor of Clinical Research and Leadership, School of Medicine & Health Sciences

 

Payman Dehghanian

Assistant Professor of Practice, School of Engineering and Applied Science

 

Wendy Ellis

Assistant Professor, Global Health; Director of the Center for Community Resilience, Milken Institute School of Public Health

 

 

Mary Ellsberg

Founding Director, Global Women's Institute, Milken Institute School of Public Health

 

James Foster

Oliver T. Carr, Jr. Professor of International Affairs and Professor of Economics, Elliot School of International Affairs

 

Adriana Glenn

Director of RN-BSN Program Track, School of Nursing

 

 

Lynn Goldman

Michael and Lori Milken Dean, Milken Institute School of Public Health

 

Tom Guglielmo

Department Chair and Associate Professor of American Studies, Department of American Studies, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

 

Yolanda Haywood

Associate Dean for Student Affairs; Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion & Faculty Affairs; Professor of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine & Health Sciences

 

 

Hiromi Ishizawa

Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

 

Saniya LeBlanc

Associate Professor, School of Engineering & Applied Science

 

Xolela Mangcu

Department of Sociology, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

 

 

Dayna Bowen Matthew

Dean and Harold H. Greene Professor of Law, GW Law

 

David Rain

Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs and Geography Department Chair,
Global Equity and Social Justice, Department of Geography, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

 

Alfreda Robinson

Associate Dean for Trial Advocacy Co-Director, Litigation and Dispute Resolution Program, GW Law

 

 

Kimberly Rodgers

Administrator, Center for Community Resilience, Milken Institute School of Public Health

 

Gail Rosseau

Clinical Professor of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine and Health Sciences

 

Sarah Shomstein

Professor, Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

 

 

Jessica Steinberg

Professor of Law, GW Law

 

Sonia Suter

The Kahan Family Research Professor of Law and Founding Director, Health Law Initiative, GW Law

 

Ashwini Tambe

Director, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

 

 

Mary Tschirhart

Director, Trachtenberg School and Stephen Joel Trachtenberg Professor in Public Service, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences