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 2022-2023 are:

• Rene Almeling, Associate 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, Associate Research Scientist in Department of Internal Medicine Section of Medical Oncology and Yale Cancer Center
• Claire Bowern, Professor of Linguistics
• Lynettte Bowring, Assistant Professor of Music History*
• Jessica Brantley, Professor of English and Department Chair
• Susan Busch, Professor of Public Health*
• Deena Costa, Associate Professor School of Nursing
• Cynthia Santos DeCure, Assistant Professor Adjunct of Acting*
• Marta Figlerowicz, Assistant 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
• Beth McGuire, Professor in the Practice of Acting; Director of Accents, Dialects, and Phonology for Actors*
• Priyamvada Natarajan, chair 2011 - 2013; Professor of Astronomy and Physics 
• 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, Co-Course Director, English 120
• Nina Stachenfeld, Current WFF Chair, Senior Research Scientist in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
• 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; Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Yuan Yao, Assistant Professor of Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Systems*