September 15, 2022
Dear colleagues:
I am delighted to announce the 2022-2023 cohort for the system-wide Public Voices Fellowship. The national Public Voices Fellowship is a unique opportunity led by The OpEd Project and designed for tenure-system faculty. The program is part of a national initiative to help faculty amplify their expertise in ways that can contribute to public conversations about pressing issues. The 20 faculty in this cohort will attend four sessions held during the 2022-23 academic year and will be paired with a journalism mentor that provides one-on-one editing and coaching, with the goal of publishing two op-ed pieces during the program.
Please join me in congratulating the following faculty who were selected for the 2022-23 program.
Chicago
- Xóchitl Bada, Associate Professor in Latin American and Latino Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Cynthia Blair, Associate Professor of Black Studies and History, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Director of the African American Cultural Center
- Margena Christian, Media Scholar, Journalist, Author and Senior Lecturer, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Michael Jin, Associate Professor of Global Asian Studies and History,
Global Asian Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Julie Maslowsky, Associate Professor of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health
- Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez, Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Research
Associate, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Christine Park, Professor of Anesthesiology and Medical Education,
College of Medicine
- Laurie Jo Reynolds, Associate Professor, Department of Art, School of Art and Art History
- Jessica Shaw, Assistant Professor and Community Psychologist, Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Springfield
- Jennifer Martin, Associate Professor, School of Education
- Sean McCandless, Assistant Professor, School of Public Management and Policy
- Amy McEuen, Associate Professor, School of Integrated Sciences, Sustainability, and Public Health
Urbana-Champaign
- Catherine Corr, Associate Professor, Department of Special Education, College of Education
- Marc Doussard, Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Fine and Applied Arts
- Leonard McKinnis, Assistant Professor of Religion and Black Studies, Department of Religion and Department of African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Rachel McMillian, Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education
- Lissette Piedra, Associate Professor, School of Social Work
- Imanni Sheppard, Teaching Assistant Professor, Co-Director of Bioethics and Medical Humanities Thread, Medical Education Facilitator, Biomedical and Translational Sciences, Carle Illinois College of Medicine
- Helga Varden, Professor, Department of Philosophy, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Lesley Wexler, John D. Colombo Professor of Law, College of Law
Thank you to all who participated in the process, either as nominators or as candidates. We are fortunate to be part of a community with so many dedicated faculty who are interested in furthering their skills as well as making their voices heard. My office plans to host the Public Voices Fellowship program again, and I strongly encourage the many talented individuals who were not selected this year to apply again in the future.
Sincerely,
Avijit