Empowering Allies
Key Objectives
Nominate Women Initiative
Professional societies around the world engage members of the biomechanics community and celebrate their accomplishments in research, mentoring, translation, and more across all stages of careers. However, women make up a significant minority of award winners, underrepresenting their contributions to the field. Women are also less likely to be nominated for awards, which contributes to the disparity. Our goal at IWB is to celebrate the amazing women in biomechanics and increase visibility of their accomplishments and contributions to our field.
Nominate Women Initiative
Collaborations Across Biomechanics Groups
We collaborate with other biomechanics affinity groups such as the Black Biomechanists Association and Latinx in Biomechanix to host meetings on allyship and equity in biomechanics. We also partner with The Biomechanics Initiative on annual National Biomechanics Day events!
Resources
We are establishing learning resources for continued education in diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our goal is to make this initiative available to the entire biomechanics community so that we can collectively grow towards becoming a world-leading STEM field in this space.
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Meet the Empowering Allies Team
Click on their pictures to learn more about them. To contact the Director of Empowering Allies, email allyship@intwomenbiomech.org.
Katie Knaus, PhD
Empowering Allies Director
Morgan Dalman, PhD
Nominate Women Lead
Committee Members 2024–25
Elena Kokkoni
Jenna Burnett
Mary Rodgers
