Steering UWM's Leadership WWHEL

Episode 3 of "Steering UWM's Leadership WWHEL" discusses the importance of self-care, safe space for BIPOC students, faculty, and staff.   Guests Include:Dr. Anika Wilson, Associate Professor, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies;  and Dr. Sara Benesh, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This phenomenal woman discusses the importance of safe space, creating a holistic teaching environment, and how they came together to collaborate on an idea that turned into needed space for our BIPOC students. Collaboratively working with internal and external talent in Milwaukee, they created "The Self-Care Club."

Welcome to our first episode of Steering UW-Milwaukee's Leadership WWHEL (Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership). Our guest, Dr. Chia Vang, Interim Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer and History Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, discusses her new leadership role at UW-Milwaukee providing authentic advice about inclusive leadership, and resiliency.