The ADVANCE Collaborative Mentoring Seed Grants are being offered by the ADVANCE Office for Faculty Equity  & Resilience (OFER) in collaboration with the Provost’s Office in order to expand faculty access to mentoring networks that support their professional and personal success and well-being through connections with colleagues across the university.

The grants are to either support:

  • the ongoing functioning of existing faculty peer mentoring groups,
  • the development of new faculty peer mentoring groups.

The following groups receive funding and ongoing support from the ADVANCE OFE for 2022-23.

  • "The Women of Color (WoC) Working Group”
    • Claire Seungeun Lee (team leader), Criminology and Justice Studies
    • Joselyne Chenane Nkogo, Criminology and Justice Studies
    • Teresa Irene Gonzales, Sociology
    • Maia Gil’Adi, English
    • Robai Werunga, Education
    • Minnie Min Hyeong Joo, Political Science

  • “Mentoring Engineering Womxn (MEW)”
    • Kelilah Wolkowicz (team leader), Mechanical Engineering
    • Yanfen Li, Biomedical Engineering
    • Wan Ting (Grace) Chen, Plastic Engineering
    • Dimitra Papagiannopoulou, Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Chiara Ghezzi, Biomedical Engineering

  • “#Pandemic Profs. – Peer Support for Junior Female Faculty in Unprecedented Times”
    • Teresa Lee (team leader), Biological Sciences
    • Hilary Lustick, Education
    • Maru Cabrera, Computer Science
    • Jane Sancinito, History
    • Rachel Melamed, Biological Sciences
    • Joy Winbourne, Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences
    • Christine Kwapich, Biological Sciences
    • Kelilah Wolkowicz, Mechanical Engineering

  • “Latin American & Caribbean Studies Peer-Mentorship Group”
    • Max Ubelaker (team leader), World Languages and Cultures
    • Maia Gil’Adi, English
    • Angelica Duran-Martinez, Political Science
    • Maria Matz, World Languages and Cultures
    • Lisa Edwards, History
    • Keith Mitchell, English

  • “Exploring the Market Drivers of Labor Exploitation in Central Massachusetts”
    • Jana Sladkova (team leader), Psychology
    • Amber Horning-Ruf, Criminology and Justice Studies
    • Monica Galizzi, Economics
    • Katherine Santos, Community Social Psychology
    • Renata Konrad, Business School, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.