In May 2018, the TRELIS project, Training and Retaining Leaders in STEM-Geospatial Sciences, will hold its first workshop in Madison, Wisconsin. TRELIS is professional development for women in higher education in the geospatial sciences, which includes geographic information science, cartography, remote sensing, and related mapping sciences. TRELIS builds leadership capacity and skills around the topics of career retention strategies, mentoring training, career transitions, technical professional development, and work-life balance. With the name we instill the concept of a human capital trellis or scaffold of support, and embrace the reality of nonlinear career trajectories that move sideways, take leaps, and do not follow a single upward ladder.
We are pleased to announce the following members of our inaugural cohort. These TRELIS Fellows will participate in a 3-day workshop that has been designed to target topics and concerns of mid-career individuals, and focus on leadership pathways. Immediately following the workshop, the TRELIS Fellows will continue their professional development exchanges during the UCGIS Symposium, co-located this year with the CaGIS AutoCarto in Madison. In the coming years TRELIS will focus on additional themes as we aim to meet the very strong interest for these professional development activities.
Allison Bailey, University of North Georgia |
Kirsten Beyer, Medical College of Wisconsin |
Justine Blanford, Pennsylvania State University |
Tanya Buckingham, University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Laure Charleux, University of Minnesota - Duluth |
Somayeh Dodge, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities |
Amy Frazier, Oklahoma State University |
Monica Haddad, Iowa State University |
Lucy Huang, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi |
Jing Li, University of Denver |
Jia Lu, Valdosta State University |
Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Clark University |
Hamil Pearsall, Temple University |
Jane Read, Syracuse University |
Elizabeth Walton, University of South Florida |
Angela Yao, University of Georgia |
TRELIS is managed by a leadership team from the University of Maine, Hunter College, the University of Colorado, the University of Southern California, Arizona State University, Tableau Software, and the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science. It is supported with generous funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF Grant #1660400). For more information, contact Kate Beard, TRELIS PI, at the University of Maine or look for resources at www.ucgis.org/TRELIS.