The Harvard Medical School’s Joint Committee on Status of Women (JCSW) Community Engagement Committee is organizing a Harvard-wide event focused on cultivating connections for women faculty and staff. Our goal is to connect women across Harvard’s many schools to become resources, peer mentors, allies and sponsors for one another in professional advancement and to and support each other through challenges in personal and professional lives.  We want this opportunity to spur women across different Harvard schools and campuses to share their inspiring stories and develop long-standing relationships as mentors and friends. SPEAKER BIOS. 

Thursday, November 2 | 4:00 - 6.30pm

Location: Armenise Amphitheater and Courtyard Cafe. MAP. Access both locations through the Quad entrance at the Courtyard Cafe! 

Registration: Harvard University ID or Affiliated Hospital/Institution ID is required. 

PROGRAM Schedule

4pm - 4.30pm                            Registration & Check-In, Armenise Amphitheater Lobby

4.30pm – 5.30pm                      Program, Armenise Amphitheater

5.30pm – 6.30pm                      Networking, Courtyard Cafe

Coming from Cambridge? Hop on the M2 shuttle to Vanderbilt Hall for easy access to the event space! SHUTTLE SCHEDULE.

Thank you to the following members of the Cultivating Connections Event Planning Committee: 
Lilit Garibyan MD, PhD, JCSW Community Engagement co-chair and Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital
Joanna (Asia) Korecka-Roet PhD, JCSW Community Engagement co-chair
Michaela Tally, JCSW Community Engagement co-chair
Melody Forbes, JCSW Past Staff co-President
Gail Williams, HMS Office for Faculty Affairs and JCSW
Diana Longden, HMS Office for Faculty Affairs and JCSW
Emilie Raymer PhD, Faculty Director for the Harvard Writing and Public Service Initiative
Amy Tsurumi PhD, JCSW and Assistant Professor of Surgery, Mass General Research Institute
Zoe Spearman, JCSW Staff Vice Co-Chair and The Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine
Angela Alberti, Co-Chair, Committee on the Concerns of Women at Harvard 
Anne Levy PhD, JCSW and The Center for Faculty Development at Massachusetts General Hospital
Carla Kim PhD, Boston Children’s Hospital The Office of Faculty Development
Maxine Milstein, MBA, JCSW and Boston Children’s Hospital The Office of Faculty Development
Carmen Alvarez, Department of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital
Tedy Victoria MD, Department of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital
Neha Udayakumar MD, Department of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital 
Deirdre Hume SHRM-SCP, JCSW and The Wyss Institute
Ana Carolina MS, CMP, VEMN, JCSW and The Wyss Institute
Lindsay Brownell MS, JCSW and The Wyss Institute
Marcia Haigis PhD, JCSW and Gender Equity for Faculty in Science 
Kelsey Moum, Office of Women’s Careers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Yelena Bisharyan PhD, Harvard Office of Technology Development
Courtney Ackerman, Office of the Provost, Committee on the Concerns of Women at Harvard 
Arielle Cline, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Committee on the Concerns of Women at Harvard 

Photography provided by Susan Symonds, CEO/Founder & Portrait Artist of Mainframe  Photographics