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Dr. Mikki Hebl is the Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Professor of Psychological Sciences with an additional appointment in the Jones Business School. Her research primarily focuses on workplace discrimination and explores how individuals and organizations can remediate such discrimination and successfully optimize diversity. 

Dr. Hebl has an impressive body of work, including approximately 200 publications, and has been recognized with 21 teaching awards, including the prestigious National Cherry Award. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Hebl has also received several gender-related research awards, such as the Academy of Management’s Sage Award in 2014 for lifetime achievement in advancing knowledge of gender and diversity in organizations. In 2018, she was honored as the Woman in Academia with the Outstanding Career Award from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland business school. 

Dr. Hebl graduated with a B.A. from Smith College and earned her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College.

Dr. Eden King is the Lynette S. Autrey Professor of Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Rice University, where she leads a research program aimed at promoting equitable and effective management in diverse organizations. Her extensive research portfolio includes over 100 scholarly publications and has been highlighted in prominent media outlets such as the New York Times, Good Morning America, and Harvard Business Review.

Dr. King's research focuses on three key areas: current manifestations of discrimination and barriers to work-life balance in organizations, the consequences of these challenges for affected individuals and their workplaces, and strategies for reducing discrimination and enhancing support for families, both at the individual and organizational levels.

Beyond her academic contributions, Dr. King collaborates with various organizations to improve their diversity climate, enhance fairness in selection systems, and develop and implement diversity training programs. She has also held leadership roles, including serving as President of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and co-editor of the Journal of Business and Psychology.

Dr. Malinda S. Smith (she/her) is the inaugural Vice Provost and Associate Vice President Research (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) and a full professor of political science at the University of Calgary. Prior to joining the UCalgary she was a full professor of political science at the University of Alberta, where she held various roles including Provost Fellow (EDI Policy) in the Office of the Provost, and Associate Chair (Graduate Studies) in the Department of Political Science.

Dr. Smith has served on numerous higher education governance committees, including as Vice President (Equity Issues) for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and as Chair of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion External Review Committee for the Canada Research Chairs. Currently, she serves on SSHRC Governing Council and Executive; as Vice Chair of the Inter-Institutional Advisory Committee for the Scarborough Charter, on Statistics Canada’s Immigration and Ethnocultural Statistics Advisory Committee; and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada’s External EDI Advisory Board.

Dr. Smith is the coauthor, editor, or coeditor of 7 books, numerous articles, book chapters and reports and has given dozens of invited keynotes and public lectures in the areas of equity, diversity, human rights, and decolonization in higher education, African political economy, and international relations. Dr. Smith is the coauthor of The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities (2017); coeditor of Critical Concepts: An Introduction to Politics (OUP 2023); the Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy (UofT Press, 2022); States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st Century (BTL 2010). and three books on Africa, including Securing Africa: Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism (2010).

Dr. Smith is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including Calgary Black Chambers’ Lifetime Achievement Award (2023), an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Simon Fraser University (2021), Compelling Calgarians (2021), the International Studies Association’s  Women’s Caucus’s Susan S. Northcutt Award (2020), 100 Accomplished Black Women Honouree (2020), the ISA-Canada Distinguished Scholar Award (2018-19), P.E. Trudeau Foundation Fellow (2018), the HSBC Community Contributor of the Year Award (2016); and the Canadian Association of University Teachers’ Equity Award  (2015).

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Dr. Sandy Hershcovis (she/her) is the Future Fund Professor in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and Senior Associate Dean | Research and Faculty at the Haskayne School of Business. Her research focuses on sex-based harassment, workplace mistreatment, and employee well-being. In particular, she is currently interested in bystander intervention on workplace harassment. Her research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

In 2020, Sandy was inducted as a member of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 2021, she was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Sandy has published her research in leading journals in her field, including the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Journal of Management. 

Sandy has provided expert testimony on workplace harassment cases before House of Commons and Senate committees aimed to introduce policy and law related to workplace harassment. Furthermore, she has provided expert witness testimony on a number of legal cases (both civil and criminal) related to sexual, racial, and other forms of workplace harassment. She has presented her research to a number of organizations, including the Alberta Network of Immigrant Women, the Canadian Forces, and the Department of National Defense.

Sandy joined Haskayne in 2015. She holds a PhD and an MSc in Management from Queen's University, and a BComm from the University of Calgary.

Dr. Hershcovis's commitment to excellence in research, teaching, and community service has earned her numerous accolades and recognition within the academic community and beyond. Her ongoing efforts continue to shape the understanding and management of workplace aggression, making a positive impact on the lives of countless individuals and organizations.