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Empowering allies.

Educating and empowering allies within and outside our membership.
 
 

 

Key objectives. 

 

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 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. Women make up a significant minority of the winners of these awards, under-representing their presence and contributions in the field. Women are also less likely to be nominated for awards, which contributes to them not winning. Our goal at IWB is to change this to celebrate the amazing women in biomechanics and increase visibility of their accomplishments and contributions to our field.

 

We are working to facilitate nominations of women for awards from biomechanics professional societies, like the American Society of Biomechanics, the International Society of Biomechanics, the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports, and many more regional and national societies. Our goal is to see at least one woman nominated for each individual award presented at professional societies.

 


 

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 Collaborations Across Biomechanics Groups

We collaborate with other biomechanics affinity groups, 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!

 


 

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 Resources

We are establishing learning resources for continued education in diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our goal is to make this important 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 

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Katie Knaus, PhD

Empowering Allies Director

Anne Koelewijn, D Eng

Nominate Women Lead

 

 

 

Committee Members 2024-25

Elena Kokkoni
Jenna Burnett
Mary Rodgers