Dr. Schroer’s research concerns racism, sexism, and ableism; oppressive narratives; and restorative justice. Her current project examines how narratives of untrustworthiness permeate the healthcare experiences of black patients and correlating shortcomings in healthcare and medical research they reveal. Her anti-racist policy work — specifically the liberal education category on race, power, and justice and faculty development work in accord with it — have had a considerable impact on justice, equity, diversity and inclusion at UMD.

Dr. Cunningham advances justice, equity, diversity and inclusion as a researcher and medical educator. Her research broadly focuses on race and medicine. Her current study aims to reduce racial disparities in healthcare by training White physicians to safely and effectively talk to Black patients about experiences of racism. As co-director of the DEI Thread in the Medical School, she partners with faculty, staff, and students to increase health equity content in the curriculum and to cultivate antiracist learning environments.

Malinda Alaine Lindquist's research explores how Black social scientists understood, challenged and constructed masculinity and debated and contested the meanings of educational equity, achievement, and harm. Her justice, equity, diversity and inclusion work is most visible in her embrace of assessment tools and pedagogical frameworks that center equity; her engagement with University-wide efforts to excavate institutional racism and center racial analysis; and her collaborations with Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Increasing equity, inclusion and diversity in the biological sciences, Dr. Mensinger has used his extramural funding during the past two decades to substantially increase the number of research opportunities for students in the STEM fields and to support a diverse group of scholars in undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral research in the biological sciences at the university, regional and national level. This has resulted in disproportionate numbers of students in marginalized populations enrolling and completing graduate degrees in the STEM fields.

Dr. Wackerle-Hollman has pursued a research agenda that focuses on family engagement and early childhood assessment with families and children that has a deep commitment to promoting social justice, equity and inclusion in community and educational settings. She has used community-based participatory research methodology in collaboration with communities to build family and educator capacity to assess and nurture Spanish and Hmong language development as well as to build positive parenting skills through an empowerment lens.

Professor Marc Bellemare is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Northrop Professor in the Department of Applied Economics, and Director of the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy. His goal as an advisor is to help graduate students make the transition from student to independent scholar. Professor Bellemare's work advances our understanding of agricultural economics, international development, and applied econometrics.