Equity, Justice, and Human Flourishing

WORKING GROUP MEMBERS

Maggie Acosta

Affiliation	Assistant Director | Great Lakes Center for Farmworker Health and Wellbeing Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences | University or Illinois Chicago
Email	macosta4@uic.edu

Lauren Aronson

Affiliation	Director, Clinical Assoc Prof, Immigration Law Clinic, College of Law | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Email	laronson@illinois.edu

Meg Bates

Affiliation	Director, Discovery Partners Institute | University of Illinois System
Email	megbates@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

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

Judith Cook

Affiliation	Professor and Director of the Center on Mental Health Services Research and Policy, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	jcook@uic.edu

Jonathan Coppess

Affiliation	Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Email	jwcoppes@illinois.edu

Tracy Dace

Affiliation	Founder/Executive Director, Education | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Email	tracy@dreaam.org

Jacinda Dariotis

Affiliation	Pampered Chef, Ltd., Endowed Chair in Family Resiliency, Professor and Director of the Family Resiliency Center | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email	dariotis@illinois.edu

LaKisha David

Affiliation	Assistant Professor | Department of Anthropology | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email	ltdavid2@illinois.edu

Craig De Voto

Affiliation	Visiting Research Associate
Email	cdevot2@uic.edu

E.J. Fagan

Affiliation	Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	ejfagan@uic.edu

Omar Pérez Figueroa

Affiliation	Assistant Professor | Urban and Regional Planning | University of Illinois
Email	operez10@illinois.edu

Alexandra Filindra

Affiliation	Associate Professor, Political Science | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	aleka@uic.edu

Linda Forst

Affiliation	Senior Associate Dean, Center for Healthy Work, School of Public Health | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	lforst@uic.edu

Tamara Fuller

Affiliation	Research Associate Professor and Director of the Children and Family Research Center, School of Social Work | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email	t-fuller@illinois.edu

Brian Gaines

Affiliation	W. Russell Arrington Professor of State Politics, Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email	bjgaines@illinois.edu

Rachel Garthe

Affiliation	Assistant Professor, School of Social Work | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Email	rcgarthe@illinois.edu

Michael Gelder

Affiliation	Adjunct Research Asst Professor, Disability and Human Development (UI Health) | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	mgelder@uic.edu

Wayne H. Giles

Affiliation	Dean Professor School of Public Health
Email	wgiles@uic.edu

Betsy Goulet

Affiliation	Clinical Assistant Professor, Public Administration | University of Illinois Springfield
Email	bgoul2@uis.edu

Joseph K. Hoereth

Affiliation	Director, Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	jhoereth@uic.edu

Cris Hughes

Affiliation	Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Email	hughesc@illinois.edu

Rachel Jackson-Gordon

Affiliation	Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Family Resiliency Center | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email	racheljg@illinois.edu

Shelly Johnson

Affiliation	Teaching Assistant Professor | Department of Health and Kinesiology | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email	shellyj@illinois.edu

Faye E. Jones

Affiliation	Director, Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Memorial Law Library and Clinical Professor of Law, College of Law | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email	fjone@illinois.edu

Kristi L Kirschner

Affiliation

Clinical Professor Departments of Medical Education, Neurology & Rehabilitation, and Medicine | Director of Undergraduate Education, Department of Medical Education | University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine

Yannick Kluch

Affiliation	Assistant Professor | Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email	ykluch@illinois.edu

Brenda Koester

Affiliation	Associate Director | Center for Social & Behavioral Science | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email	bkoester@illinois.edu

Maria Krysan

Affiliation	Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	krysan@uic.edu

Anthony Laden

Affiliation	Professor | Philosophy | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	laden@uic.edu

Molly Jo Lamb

Affiliation	Executive Director, Center for State Policy and Leadership | University of Illinois Springfield
Email	mehle01s@uis.edu

Helen Lee

Affiliation	Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, College of Medicine (UI Health) | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	leehelen@uic.edu

Jong Sung Lee

Affiliation	Deputy Associate Director, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Email	jonglee1@illinois.edu

Amanda Lewis

Affiliation	Distinguished Professor and Director of Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	aelewis@uic.edu

Zhuoer Lin

Affiliation	Assistant Professor | Division of Health Policy and Administration | University of Illinois Chicago
Phone	(312) 996-1325
Email	zlin01@uic.edu

Sanché Mabins

Affiliation

Visiting Clinical Instructor | Social and Global Emergency Medicine Fellow | Department of Emergency Medicine | University of Illinois Chicago

Sheena Martenies

Affiliation	Assistant Professor of Applied Health Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Email	smarte4@illinois.edu

William Martin

Affiliation	Senior Advisor to the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of Research Development | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	wjm7@uic.edu

Jason Mazzone

Affiliation	Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Constitutional Theory, History, and Law, College of Law | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email	mazzonej@illinois.edu

Aisha Motlani

Affiliation	Research Associate | IWERC
Email	amotlani@uillinois.edu

Ashley Muchow

Affiliation	Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law, and Justice | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	muchow2@uic.edu

Christopher Navarro

Affiliation	Lead Research Programmer, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Email	cmnavarr@illinois.edu

Brenda Parker

Affiliation	Associate Professor, College of Urban Planning and Policy | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	bkparker@uic.edu

Rolf Pendall

Affiliation	Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Email	rpendall@illinois.edu

Betsy Porter

Affiliation	Assistant Clinical Professor, UIC College of Law | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	epiekarz@uic.edu

Tara Powell

Affiliation	Associate Professor, School of Social Work | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email	tlpowell@illinois.edu

Elizabeth Powers

Affiliation	Interim Associate Director, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email	epowers@illinois.edu

Minakshi (Mina) Raj

Affiliation	Associate Professor | Department of Health and Kinesiology | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email	mraj@illinois.edu

Eleanor Rivera

Affiliation	Assistant Professor | Department of Population Health Nursing Science | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	sriver25@uic.edu

Janell Ross

Affiliation	Alum, UIUC & UIC
Email	jrossmph@gmail.com

Steven Schwinn

Affiliation	Associate Dean, UIC Law | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	schwinn@uic.edu

Eleanor Seaton

Affiliation	Professor of Psychology | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Email	eseaton@illinois.edu

Haley Seif

Affiliation	Professor | Sociology/Anthropology | University of Illinois Springfield
Email	hseif2@uis.edu

Alan Simmons

Affiliation	Research Director, Center for State Policy and Leadership | University of Illinois Springfield
Phone	217-206-8109
Email	asimm2@uis.edu

Gisela Sin

Affiliation	Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Email	gsin@illinois.edu

P. S. Sriraj

Affiliation	Research Associate Professor and Director of the Urban Transportation Center, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	sriraj@uic.edu

James Swartz

Affiliation	Professor, College of Social Work, Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Health Affairs | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	jaswartz@uic.edu

Rachel Switzky

Affiliation	Director, Siebel Center for Design | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Email	rswitzky@illinois.edu

Matthew Tarduno

Affiliation	Assistant Professor, Economics | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	tarduno@uic.edu

Stevan Weine

Affiliation	Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Director of the Center for Global Health, College of Medicine | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	smweine@uic.edu

Gretchen A. Winter

Affiliation	Executive Director of the Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society and Adjunct Professor, College of Business | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email	gwinter@illlinois.edu

Chi-Fang Wu

Affiliation	Associate Professor, School of Social Work | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Email	cfangwu@illinois.edu

Suyang Yu

Affiliation	Lecturer, School of Public Management and Policy | University of Illinois Springfield
Email	syu70@uis.edu

Yittayih Zelalem

Affiliation	Director, Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement | University of Illinois Chicago
Email	yittazel@uic.edu