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RUBY MENDENHALL
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ruby Mendenhall is a Professor of Sociology, African American Studies, Urban and Regional Planning, Gender and Women’s Studies and Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is an affiliate of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology; Women and Gender in Global Perspectives; the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research; Epstein Health Law and Policy Program; Family Law and Policy Program; the Institute of Government and Public Affairs; and the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Mendenhall is the Associate Dean for Diversity and Democratization of Health Innovation at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine….Read More
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Phyllis Baker
Affiliation- Director of Academic Affairs, Discovery Partners Institute | University of Illinois System
Email pbaker@illinois.edu
Jake Bowers
Affiliation- Associate Professor, Departments of Political Science and Statistics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email jwbowers@illinois.edu
Stephen Brown
Affiliation- Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine | University of Illinois Chicago
Email sbbrown9@uic.edu
Beverly Bunch
Affiliation- Professor, School of Public Management and Policy | University of Illinois Springfield
Email bbunc1@uis.edu
Joseph Cheng
Affiliation- Research Professor and Director of Special Projects, Gies School of Business | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email jlcheng@illinois.edu
Lorraine Conroy
Affiliation- Division Director and Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health | University of Illinois Chicago
Email lconroy@uic.edu
Jonathan Coppess
Affiliation- Director of the Gardner Agriculture Policy Program and Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email jwcoppes@illinois.edu
Jennifer A. Delaney
Affiliation- Associate Professor, Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, College of Education | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email delaneyj@illinois.edu
David DuBois
Affiliation- Associate Dean for Research and Professor, School of Public Health | University of Illinois Chicago
Email dldubois@uic.edu
