Steering & Council

Steering & Council members meet monthly to discuss the direction of the organization and the status of women at the University. Liaisons (marked with an asterisk*) serve on Steering & Council as representatives of their respective Schools within the University. 

WFF Steering & Council members for 2024-2025 are:

• Rene Almeling, Professor of Sociology 
• Jasmina Besirevic Regan,  Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Yale College and Associate Dean for Graduate Educations, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Lecturer, Departments of Sociology and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration
• Kim Blenman, Assistant Professor of Medicine,  Section of Medical Oncology and Assistant Professor of Computer Science
• Claire Bowern, Professor of Linguistics
• Lynettte Bowring, Associate Professor Adjunct of Music History, Coordinator for Academic Studies*
• Jessica Brantley, Professor of English and Department Chair
• Susan Busch, Professor of Public Health, Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies*
• Deena Costa, Associate Professor School of Nursing, Associate Professor of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary
• Cynthia Santos DeCure, Associate Professor Adjunct of Acting*
• Marta Figlerowicz, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English
• Joyce Hsiang, Assistant Professor of Architecture
• Dana Karwas, Director of the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media 
• Paula Kavathas, chair 2013 - 2017; Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Immunobiology and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
• Danya Keene, Associate Professor Public Health*
• Marta  Kuzma, Professor  of Art Theory and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean of the School of Art*
• Kelsey Martin, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Hematology)*
• Reina Maruyama, chair 2021-2023, Professor of Physics and Astronomy
• Priyamvada Natarajan, chair 2011 - 2013; Professor of Astronomy and Physics 
• Raquel Ramos, Associate Professor, Yale School of Nursing
• Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law
• Naomi Rogers, chair 2020-2021, Professor  of History of Medicine and History
• Nancy L. Ruther, Associate Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies; Lecturer, Political Science (retired)
• Kim Shirkhani, Lecturer in English
• Nina Stachenfeld, current WFF chair, Senior Research Scientist in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
• Robin Stern, Associate Director, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
• Eboni Marshall Turman, Associate Professor of Theology and African American Religion 
• Meg Urry, co-chair 2007-2008; Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy
• Laura Wexler, co-chair 2008 - 2011; Charles H. Farnam Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Yuan Yao, Associate Professor of Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Systems*