'Only One': A Panel Discussion

Come and hear from Jered Butler, Dr. Brock Schroeder, Dr. Dana Prince, and Dr. Jenny Hawkins on how they navigate their identities in professional spaces. There will be a Q and A session afterward and a chance to speak with panelists in breakout rooms.

Our panelist (see bio below):
Dr. Brock Schroeder
Jered Butler
Dr. Dana Prince
Dr. Jenny Hawkins

Dr. Schroeder is a seasoned higher education faculty and administrator, with over 25 years of experience in teaching, advising, and enrollment management. Currently, he serves as the Director of Admission & Senior Recruiter for the Weatherhead School of Management specialty master's programs. His passion is empowering individuals to grow in confidence, skills, knowledge, and professional experiences. Brock loves astronomy and started his career in higher education as a director of a planetarium and instructor of astronomy and science education.

A native of the DC Metropolitan area, Jered Butler is a practicing Aerospace Engineer in the Seattle Metropolitan Area. During his time in college, Jered was exposed to a wide breadth of student leadership opportunities from leading to establishing new organizations within the
campus community. This involvement included the National Society of Black Engineers Regional Executive board, co-founding a Black Student Union umbrella organization, and serving as Vice President of his school's Undergraduate Diversity Collaborative student executive council. He is currently in his second rotation with the Engineering Career Foundation Program (ECFP) within the Flight Test Engineering group as an Aerodynamic Performance Analysis Engineer. Within this role, Jered works to create, optimize and executing flight test plans on experimental commercial and military aircraft allowing for a more streamline certification effort with global aviation regulators.

Dana M. Prince, Ph.D., MPH. Prior to joining the faculty at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, Dr. Prince completed her NIDA-funded T32 postdoctoral fellowship at the Yale School of Medicine in 2016. Dr. Prince has developed a robust program of health disparities research that focuses on the transition to adulthood for vulnerable and marginalized youth, most notably substance use, incarceration, and homelessness, among adolescents and young adults transitioning from foster care. Sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth involved in child welfare face additional risks. SGM is the NIH-designated definition for individuals who are a sexual minority (e.g. lesbian, gay, bisexual) and/or have a minority gender identity or expression (e.g. transgender, gender non-conforming). Dr. Prince's federally funded research aims to understand the mental health and service needs of SGM child welfare-involved youth, and to develop and test multi-level interventions to promote optimal health and wellbeing.

Jenny Hawkins, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Economics and Director of the Undergraduate Program in Economics. Her courses include Economic Analysis of Business Strategies, Law and Economics, Economic Analysis of Labor Markets, Principles of Microeconomics, the SAGES Senior Capstone in Economics, and the EMBA Economics for Managers. Her research focuses on topics in industrial organization and law and economics using both theoretical and empirical analyses. Hawkins received her Ph.D. in Economics from The University of Arizona and her BA in Mathematics and Economics from Idaho State University. She began her appointment at the Weatherhead School of Management in 2014.

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