April 9, 2021
11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

There is growing importance and requirement for adding a statement on diversity, equity and inclusion. In this webinar, Dr. Blessing Enekwe and Dr. Linda Macri from University of Maryland, College Park will bring their expertise to present to you about these documents.

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Blessing Enekwe, Ph.D.
Dr. Blessing Enekwe is the Program Director for the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at the University of Maryland-College Park, helping to establish the office in 2016. In her role, she serves to support professional skills development and community engagement through implementing programming, events. She manages two diversity focused fellowship programs at UMD, the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the NSF AGEP Promise Academy Alliance Fellowship, also serving as the campus project coordinator.  Additionally, Blessing helps to support mentoring initiatives for graduate students, postdocs, and  faculty through mentor training and the creation of faculty mentoring circles. As a member of the  GCC, she serves as a member of the diversity committee.

Dr. Linda Macri is the Director of Academic and Professional Development in the Graduate School at the  University of Maryland - College Park and has directed the Graduate School Writing Center since 2014. She is also the co-chair of the Consortium on Graduate Communication. Her academic interests are in composition studies, rhetorical theory, graphic novels and comics, and women's literature. She has taught a wide range of writing and literature courses, and she previously served as the director of the Academic Writing Program in the English Department.