October
20,
2021
Join our health science community for a series of free workshops and conversations focused on topics related to equity, diversity and inclusion that deeply impact our work and our practice. This event is free and open to all health sciences faculty, students, staff, practicing professionals, and community members.
Continuing Education credit is available!
Kala Kimberly Cornelius is from the Oneida and Menominee Nations. She grew up on the Oneida reservation, and worked her entire nursing career in tribal health serving her community. She received her BSN from UW Oshkosh, MSN in Nurse Education from Bellin College, and a DNP degree from UW Madison. Kala currently serves as one of the STREAM Program Co-Directors in the School of Nursing, and provides holistic support to Native nursing students.
Danielle Yancey (Menominee/Santee) has worked in public service for nearly twenty years focusing on programs that promote social justice, education access, and equity. Currently, she serves as the director for the Native American Center for Health Professions at the School of
Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Danielle grew up on the Menominee Indian reservation in north central Wisconsin. She is an alumna of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with undergraduate degrees in women’s studies and social welfare, Master of Science in urban and regional planning, and holds a sustainability leadership graduate certificate from Edgewood College.
Haley Burkhardt is the STREAM Coordinator at UW-Madison’s School of Nursing. She is St. Croix Chippewa and Mississippi Choctaw. She received her BA and MS from UW-Madison in Anthropology focusing in biological anthropology, with certificates in Archaeology and American
Indian Studies.
Jeneile Luebke, PhD, RN, is an Anna Julia Cooper Post-Doctoral Nurse Research Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Nursing. She received her early nursing degrees (LPN and ADN) in Bemidji, Minnesota, and her BS and MS degrees in Nursing from the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and her PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She’s an enrolled member of Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. Her ancestry includes Metis, St. Croix and Lac Courte Oreilles Chippewa, French, and German. Her area of research and expertise include gender-based violence in the lives of Indigenous women, community health and utilization and application of postcolonial and Indigenous feminist frameworks. She is a key part of a team of multi-site researchers who are involved in several community engaged research and service grants that aim to better understand the lived experiences of gender-based violence, as well as advocating for survivor-led, trauma informed, and culturally safe interventions and options for BIPOC survivors of gender-based violence. Her other current work focuses on the impacts of gender-based violence on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous women and girls, particularly focusing upon the relationship between land violence and gender-based violence.
See the event flyer.
The Interprofessional Diversity and Equity Lunch & Learn series addresses issues related to equity and inclusion across health care settings. The series consists of monthly speakers and panels hosted by the Schools of Nursing, Medicine, Pharmacy and Veterinary Medicine.
