Allyship Showcase: Institutional Programs to Support Allyship (IDEAS) - December 11

Interim Associate Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion
Director, The Women’s Place
The Ohio State University

Andreá N. Williams is director of The Women’s Place. Since joining The Ohio State University in 2006, Dr. Williams has served widely on college and university committees and contributed to initiatives dedicated to diversity, inclusion and women’s advancement. She was recognized with the university’s Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award in 2016. Dr. Williams is also an associate professor in the Department of English, specializing in African American and nineteenth-century American literature. As a literary historian, she is drawn to questions about the social and material conditions that historically have enabled or inhibited African Americans in producing literature and art. She is the author of Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction (2013). 

Dr. Williams’ current work traces the lives and literature of unmarried African American women who helped to cultivate singleness as a viable long-term lifestyle in the twentieth century. Her research has been awarded grants and fellowships from Rutgers University, the National Humanities Center, and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Dr. Williams is an alumna of Spelman College, a historically black women’s college in Atlanta, and earned her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Director, Programming and Professional Development
Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Washington University School of Medicine

Erin Stampp has been serving communities as a diversity and inclusion practitioner for over 15 years in both the U.S. and internationally. She is passionate about achieving equity in outcomes for all individuals and has seen that diversity and inclusion efforts play a key role in the larger work of addressing health disparities and other inequities. Ms. Stampp received a Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology with a Minor in Women Studies from Western Illinois University and then joined the United States Peace Corps where she served in Port Antonio, Jamaica for 3 years. After returning to the U.S., she earned a Masters of Public Policy and a Certificate in Non-Profit Management from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she also designed civic engagement and diversity learning opportunities for students. 

After positions with Baltimore City, Missouri University of Science and Technology, and the Center for Diversity and Cultural Competence at Barnes Jewish Hospital, Ms. Stampp joined the Washington University School of Medicine as a Diversity and Inclusion Leader in May of 2017. She also serves the St. Louis Region as a training specialist with the Anti-Defamation League to provide K-12 anti-bias education. She participates in the Forward Through Ferguson Racial Equity Roundtable and is an ambassador with Alive and Well STL.

Professor of Anesthesiology
Associate Dean for Women’s Leadership
Director, Center for the Advancement of Women in Science and Medicine (AWSM)
Medical College of Wisconsin

Dr. Ellinas is Professor of Anesthesiology and joined Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) in 2000, specializing in Obstetric Anesthesiology. She has held clinical roles as diverse as Director of OB Anesthesia and Program Director for MCW’s OB Anesthesia Fellowship. As Associate Dean for Women’s Leadership, Dr. Ellinas advances the MCW community as it becomes a destination of choice for women in academic medicine, and assists the recruitment, retention, advancement, and leadership achievements of women faculty. 

With MCW Provost Joseph Kerschner, Dr. Ellinas developed and initiated a plan for a women’s leadership center at MCW in conjunction with MCW’s Council for Women’s Advocacy and launched the MCW Center for the Advancement of Women in Science and Medicine (AWSM) as its inaugural director in 2018. As Center Director, Dr. Ellinas leads AWSM in its efforts to create an environment that allows all genders to grow and thrive in the health sciences. AWSM focuses its efforts particularly on culture initiatives through its IWill, WeWill, and MCWill goals and Women’s Leadership through its Women’s Leadership Learning Collaborative. Dr. Ellinas is currently chair of the AAMC Group on Women in Medicine and Science (GWIMS) and is honored to serve the women of academic medical centers in this role.